European literature -- History and criticism

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• European literature

• European drama -- History and criticism
• European poetry -- History and criticism
• Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
• European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism

• The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1992), by Hans J. Rindisbacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, by Emma Goldman (HTML at pitzer.edu and Berkeley)

• Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry, by Richard Allen Shoaf (HTML at ufl.edu)

• Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (London: Macmillan, 1931), by W. P. Ker (Gutenberg text)
• From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie Laidlay Weston
  • HTML at celtic-twilight.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree: Medieval Stories of Men and Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), ed. by Patricia Ann Terry (HTML at UC Press)
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)

• Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (London: Macmillan, 1931), by W. P. Ker (Gutenberg text)
• From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie Laidlay Weston
  • HTML at celtic-twilight.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text

• Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by E. Jane Burns (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie Laidlay Weston
  • HTML at celtic-twilight.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Richard Allen Shoaf (frame-dependent HTML at ufl.edu)
• The Quest of the Holy Grail, by Jessie Laidlay Weston (PDF at thedcl.org)
• Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance (second edition, enlarged; New York: B. Franklin, 1960), by Lucy Allen Paton, contrib. by Roger Sherman Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, ed. by Thomas Percy (multiple formats with commentary at exclassics.com)

• The Maiden King in Iceland (1938), by Erik Wahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Richard Allen Shoaf (frame-dependent HTML at ufl.edu)

• Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Eleanor Webster Bulatkin (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Debora Kuller Shuger (HTML at UC Press)

• La Mirada Elíptica: El Trasfondo Barroco De La Poesía Española Contemporánea (in Spanish; Madrid: Visor Libros, 2004), by Luis Martín-Estudillo (Flash and PDF at Iowa)

• The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Debora Kuller Shuger (HTML at UC Press)

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• A Yaqui Easter (c1971), by Muriel Thayer Painter (illustrated HTML with commentary at Arizona)

• The Ancient Cornish Drama (translation of the Ordinalia plays; 2 volumes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1859), ed. by Edwin Norris
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
• The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
• The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)

• The Creation of the World, With Noah's Flood, Written in Cornish in the Year 1611 (London: Printed for J. B. Nichols, 1827), by William Jordan, ed. by Davies Gilbert, trans. by John Keigwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Cornish Drama: With Illustrations From Ancient Cornish Sacred Poems and Miracles Plays of Other Lands (A Lecture) (London: E. Stock, 1906), by Thurstan C. Peter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Ancient Cornish Drama (translation of the Ordinalia plays; 2 volumes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1859), ed. by Edwin Norris
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries Founded Upon Scriptural Subjects, and Formerly Represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1843-1847), ed. by Thomas Wright
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries: Containing Ten Dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley series, With Two of Latter Date; To Which is Prefixed, An Historical View of This Description of Plays (Basel: Schweighauser and Co., 1838), ed. by William Marriott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama (fifth edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Harrowing of Hell: A Miracle-Play Written in the Reign of Edward the Second, Now First Published From the Original Manuscript in the British Museum, With an Introduction, Translation, and Notes (London: John Russell Smith, 1840), ed. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (multiple formats at Google)
• Ludus Coventriae: A Collection of Mysteries, Formerly Represented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1841), ed. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ludus Coventriae: or, The Plaie Called Corpus Christi, Cotton Ms. Vespasian D. VIII, (London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by H. Milford, Oxford University press, c1922), ed. by K. S. Block (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
• The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
• A Rosary of Mystery Plays: Fifteen Plays Selected from the York Cycle of Mysteries Performed by the Crafts on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries (Albany, NY: Press of F. H. Evory, 1915), trans. by Margaret S. Mooney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Shepherds' Play, Everyman, and Other Early Plays (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1910), ed. by Clarence Griffin Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Chester Whitsun Plays (Chester: Phillipson and Golder, 1906), ed. by Joseph Cox Bridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Towneley Plays, ed. by George England (HTML at Michigan)
• The Towneley Plays (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, 1897, reprinted 1952), ed. by George England, contrib. by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York, on the Day of Corpus Christi, in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries (reprint, originally published 1883; New York: Russell and Russell, 1963), ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)

• Records of Early English Drama: York (2 volumes; Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1979), ed. by Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Rogerson
  • Volume 1 (records): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (appendixes and other editorial matter): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Ignacio Navarrete (HTML at UC Press)

• Legends and Satires From Mediaeval Literature, ed. by Martha Hale Shackford (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google; US access only)

• Legends of the Middle Ages, Narrated With Special Reference to Literature and Art (1896), by H. A. Guerber (Gutenberg text)

• Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, ed. by William D. MacClintock and Porter Lander MacClintock
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at northvegr.org

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