ENG 2523H: THE MORALITY PLAY
(This course will be offered in the spring term 2006.)

1. Play-texts

Pride of Life

• J. Coldewey (ed) Early English Drama, an Anthology (New York, 1993).
  
• N. Davis (ed) Non-cycle Plays and Fragments EETS (Oxford, 1970).
  
• P. Happé (ed) Tudor Interludes (Penguin, 1972).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

The Castle of Perseverance

• D. Bevington (ed) Medieval Drama (Boston, 1975).
  
• M. Eccles (ed) The Macro Plays EETS (Oxford, 1969).
  
• P. Happé (ed) Four Morality Plays (Penguin, 1979).
• E. T. Schell and J. D. Schuchter (eds) English Morality Plays and Moral Interludes (New York, 1969).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Mankind

• Bevington Medieval Drama.
  
• J. Coldewey (ed) Early English Drama, an Anthology (New York, 1993).
  
• Eccles Macro Plays.
  
• J. A. B. Somerset Four Tudor Interludes (London, 1974).
  
• G. A. Lester (ed) Three Late Medieval Morality Plays (London, 1981).
  
• J. S. Farmer (ed) 'Lost' Tudor Plays (London, 1907).
• Greg Walker (ed) Medieval Drama (Blackwell, 2000).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Wisdom (also known as Mind, Will, and Understanding)

• J. Coldewey (ed) Early English Drama, an Anthology (New York, 1993).
  
• Eccles Macro Plays.
  
• F. Furnivall (ed) The Digby Plays EETS (Oxford, 1896).
  
• M. C. Riggio (ed) The Play of Wisdom: Its Texts and Contexts (New York, 1998).
  
• Greg Walker (ed) Medieval Drama (Blackwell, 2000).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Everyman

• Bevington Medieval Drama.
  
• J. Coldewey (ed) Early English Drama, an Anthology (New York, 1993).
  
• J. Astington (ed) Everyman PLS Performance Texts (Toronto, 1980).
  
• Lester Three Morality Plays.
  
• Schell and Schuchter English Morality Plays.
  
• A. C. Cawley (ed) Everyman (Manchester, 1961).
  
• A. C. Cawley (ed) Everyman and Medieval Mystery Plays (New York, 1959).
  
• J. Q. Adams (ed) Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas (Cambridge MA, 1924).
  
• J. S. Farmer (ed) Six Anonymous Plays first ser., 1510-37 (London, 1905).
  
• Greg Walker (ed) Medieval Drama (Blackwell, 2000).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Mundus et Infans (also known as The World and the Child)

• Clifford Davidson and Peter Happé The Worlde and the Chylde (Kalamazoo, 1999).
  
• Lester Morality Plays.
  
• Schell and Schuchter English Morality Plays.
  
• J. M. Manly (ed) Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama (New York, 1897, repr. 1967).
  
• Farmer Six Anon. Plays.
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Mary Magdalene

• Bevington Medieval Drama.
  
• Furnivall Digby Plays.
  
• D. C. Baker, L. B. Hall, and J. L. Murphy The Late Medieval Religious Plays of Bodleian Mss. Digby 133 and E Museo 160 EETS OS 283 (London, 1982).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Skelton Magnyfycence

• Happé Four Morality Plays.
  
• R. L. Ramsey (ed) Magnyfycence EETS (London, 1908).
  
• P. Neuss (ed) Magnificence (Manchester, 1980).
  
• Greg Walker (ed) Medieval Drama (Blackwell, 2000).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Hickscorner

• D. I. Lancashire (ed) Two Tudor Interludes (Manchester, 1980).
  
• Farmer Six Anon. Plays.
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Youth

• Lancashire Two Tudor Interludes.
  
• Happé Tudor Interludes.
  
• Schell and Schuchter English Morality Plays.
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Ulpian Fulwell Like Will to Like

• Somerset Four Tudor Interludes.
  
• Happé Tudor Interludes.
  
• J. S. Farmer The Dramatic Writings of Ulpian Fulwell (London, 1906).
  

Wit and Science

• Bevington Medieval Drama.
  
• Happé Tudor Interludes.
  
• Schell and Schuchter English Morality Plays.
  
• Adams Pre-Shakespearean Dramas.
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Cambises

• Creeth Tudor Plays.
  
• Manly Specimens.
  
• Adams Pre-Shakespearean Dramas.
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

Bale King John

• Happé Four Morality Plays.
  
• Creeth Tudor Plays.
  
• B. B. Adams (ed) King Johan (San Marino CA, 1969).
  
• J. H. P. Pafford (ed) King Johan (Oxford, 1931).
  
• J. S. Farmer (ed) The Dramatic Writings of John Bale (London, 1907).
  
• Gerard NeCastro's drama text website

2. Critical Works

R. Beadle (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (Cambridge, 1994), esp. Chapters 9 and 10. See also the bibliography for critical essays on individual plays.

D. Bevington From Mankind to Marlowe (Cambridge MA, 1962).
- Tudor Drama and Politics (Cambridge MA, 1968).
D. Brown Christian Humanism in the Late English Morality Plays (Gainesville FL, 1999)
E. K. Chambers The Medieval Stage 2 vols (Oxford, 1903).
M. P. Coogan An Interpretation of the Moral Play 'Mankind' (Washington, 1947).
H. Craig English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1955).
T. W. Craik The Tudor Interlude (Leicester, 1962).
W. A. Davenport Fifteen-century English Drama: The Early Moral Plays and their Literary Relations (Woodbridge, Suff., 1982).
C. Davidson Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays (New York, 1989).
I. Ettinga-Hengstebeck Identitaetsprobleme der dramatischen Personen in den fruehes englischen Moralitaeten (Engelsbach, 1996). M. Fifield The Rhetoric of Free Will: the Five-action Structure of the English Morality Play (Leeds, 1974).
H. C. Gardiner Mysteries' End (New Haven, 1946).
W. O. Harris Skelton's Magnyfycence and the Cardinal Virtue Tradition (Chapel Hill NC, 1965).
S. Kahrl Traditions of Medieval English Drama (London, 1974).
M. R. Kelly Flamboyant Drama: a Study of 'The Castle of Perseverance', 'Mankind' and 'Wisdom' (Carbondale IL, 1979).
W. R. Mackenzie The English Moralities from the Point of View of Allegory (New York, 1914).
J. J. Molloy A Theological Interpretation of the Moral Play, Wisdom, Who is Christ (Washington DC, 1952).
H. B. Norland Drama in Early Britain, 1485-1558 (Lincoln NB, 1995). Especially part 3, "The Secularization of the Morality"
G. R. Owst Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England (Cambridge, 1933).
R. Potter The English Morality Play (London, 1975).
L. V. Ryan "Doctrine and dramatic structure in Everyman" Speculum xxxii (1957), 722-35.
N. C. Schmitt "The Idea of a Person in Medieval Morality Plays" in C. Davidson, C. J. Gianakaris, and J. H. Stroupe (eds) The Drama of the Middle Ages (New York, 1982).
J. A. B. Somerset "Fair is foul and foul is fair": Vice-Comedy's Development and Theatrical Effects" in The Elizabethan Theatre V ed. G. R. Hibbard (Toronto, 1975), 54-76.
B. Spivack Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil (New York, 1958).
E. N. S.Thompson The English Morality Plays (New Have, 1910). J. Wasson "The Morality Play: Ancestor of Elizabethan Drama?" Comparative Drama 13 (1979), 210-21.
R. Weimann Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater (Baltimore, 1978), esp. Chapter IV.
A. Williams "The English moral play before 1500" Annuale Medievale iv (1963), 9-12.

3. Supplementary texts

Prudentius Psychomachia

• H. J. Thomson (ed) Prudentius Loeb Classical Library, vol 1 (Cambridge MA, 1949), pp 273-343.
• H. Isbell (tr.)The Last Poets of Imperial Rome (Penguin, 1971), pp 127-152.