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• English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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• 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)
• 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 Macro Plays: 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475); 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460); 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425) (London: Early English Text Society, 1904), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, ed. by Stephen Thomas Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren (HTML at Rochester)
• 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)
• The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)
• 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 Digby plays, with an incomplete 'morality' of Wisdom, who is Christ (part of one of the Macro moralities). (London, Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., 1896), by Digby plays (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimens of the pre-Shakesperean drama, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by John Matthews Manly. (Boston : Ginn & co., 1897), by John Matthews Manly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Towneley plays. Re-edited from the unique ms. by George England, with side-notes and introd. by Alfred W. Pollard. (London, Published for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1897), by Towneley plays (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English miracle plays, moralities, and interludes : specimens of the pre-Elizabethan drama / edited with an introduction, notes and glossary by Alfred W. Pollard. (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1909), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere tercentennial celebration : a program illustrating the chief types of drama before Shakspere : at the University of Chicago, Friday evening, February 25, 1916 / by the Department of English Language and Literature. (Chicago, Ill. : [The Dept., 1916]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the pre-Shaksperean drama / with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by John Matthews Manly. (Boston ; London : Ginn, c1897), by John Matthews Manly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Chester plays : a collection of mysteries founded upon scriptural subjects, and formerly represented by the trades of Chester at Whitsuntide / edited by Thomas Wright. (London : Printed for the Shakespeare society, 1843-47), by Chester plays (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everyman with other interludes, including eight miracle plays. (London, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton, [1920]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A sketch of the pre-Shakespearian drama by Bro. Frank Ireson ... artificer to the Sette. (London, Imprynted by Broʻ C. W. H. Wyman, 1885), by Frank Ireson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The star of Bethlehem : a miracle play of the nativity, reconstructed from the Towneley and other old English cycles (of the XIIIth, XIVth and XVthe centuries) and supplemented and adapted to modern conditions / by Charles Mills Gayley. As composed for Mr. Ben Greet, and presented by his company. (New York : Fox, Duffield, [1904]), by Charles Mills Gayley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Chester plays: a collection of mysteries founded upon scriptural subjects, and formerly represented by the trades of Chester at Whitsuntide. Ed. by Thomas Wright. (London : Printed for the Shakespeare society, 1843), by Chester plays (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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; now first printed from the unique manuscript in the Library of Lord Ashburnham, ed. with introduction and glossary by Lucy Toulmin Smith ... (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1885), by York plays (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nativity and adoration cycle of the Chester mysteries, as performed in New York on Christmas eve at the Greenwich village theatre, with a prefatory note on the sources and method of playing, including The Sheaphardes' play, The Offering of the sheaphardes, The adoration of the Magi; ed. by Frank M. Conroy and Roy Mitchell. (New York, E. H. Arens, 1917), by Chester plays (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Digby mysteries / edited from the mss. by F.J. Furnivall. (London : Published for the New Shakspere Society by N. Trübner & Co., ..., 1882), by Digby plays (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimens of the pre-Shaksperean drama : with an introduction, notes, and a glossary / by John Matthews Manly. (Boston : Ginn, 1897-1898), by John Matthews Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Everyman", with other interludes, including eight miracle plays. (London, J. M. Dent & sons ltd.: New York, E. P. Dutton & co., [1910]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Towneley plays : re-edited from the unique ms. / by George England, with side-notes & introd. by Alfred W. Pollard. (London : Publisht for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897), by Towneley plays (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 / by William Marriott. (Basel : Schweighouser, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Grocers' play : from a manuscript in possession of Robert Fitch, Esq., F.G.S. (Norwich [Norfolk] : Printed by C. Muskett, 1856), by Norwich pageants (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ludus Coventriæ. A collection of mysteries, formerly represented at Coventry on the feast of Corpus Christi. Ed. by James Orchard Halliwell. (London, Printed for the Shakespeare society, 1841), by N-Town plays (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays, ed. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Relations of lyric and drama in mediaeval England. By George C. Taylor. (Chicago [The University of Chicago press], 1907), by George Coffin Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le théâtre en Angleterre depuis la conquête jusqu'aux prédécesseurs immédiats de Shakespeare; par J. J. Jusserand. (Paris, E. Leroux, 1881), by J. J. Jusserand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English religious drama, by Katharine Lee Bates. (New York : Macmillan, 1913 [c1893]), by Katharine Lee Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Priestergestalten im englischen drama bis zu Shakespeare ... Von Richard Röhmer. ([Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1909]), by Richard Röhmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The growth of English drama, (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1914), by Arnold Wynne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evolution of the English drama up to Shakespeare, (Berlin, G. Reimer, 1912), by Charles William Wallace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die entwickelung der figur des gedungenen mörders im älteren englischen drama bis Shakespeare ... (Mainz, P. von Zabern, 1913), by Jacob Leonhard Blass (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prolog und epilog im mittelalterlichen englischen drama ... (Grünberg, H. Robert, 1913), by Otto Spaar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Technik des Dialogs im mittelalterlichen Drama Englands ... / eingereicht von Julius Haller. (Worms a. Rh. : Wormser Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft, 1916), by Julius Haller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lustspielelemente im me. drama (bis 1500) Ein beitrag zur kenntnis des me. dramas. (Bühl, Buchdruckerei Unitas, [1913]), by Günther Wieland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in the English mystery plays : a thesis presented to the philosophical faculty of Yale University / by Charles Davidson. ([New Haven : Yale University?], 1892), by Charles Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of English dramatic poetry to the time of Shakespeare; and Annals of the stage to the restoration, by J. Payne Collier. (London, J. Murray, 1831), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere and his predecessors, by Frederick S. Boas ... (London, J. Murray, 1902), by Frederick S. Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dissertation on the pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry, by the trading companies of that city; chiefly with reference to the vehicle, characters, and dresses of the actors. Compiled in a great degree, from sources hitherto unexplored. To which are added, the pageant of the Shearmen & Taylors' Company, and other municipal entertainments of a public nature. (Coventry, Merridew; sold also by Harding, Triphook, and Lepard [etc.], 1825), by Thomas Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient mysteries described: especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testament story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British museum: including notices of ecclesiastical shows... By William Hone. (London, W. Hone, 1823), by William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die englischen Marienklagen / von Hermann Thien. (Kiel : Druck von H. Fiencke, 1906), by Hermann Thien (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama / by John Addington Symonds ... (London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1903), by John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Satire in the early English drama, by Eva M. Campbell. (Columbus, O., The F. J. Heer printing co., 1914), by Eva Marie Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The original identity of the York and Towneley cycles / (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota, c1919), by Marie Caroline Lyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dawn of English drama / by Patrick Kirwan. (London : Harding & More, 1920), by Patrick Kirwan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Miles gloriosus im englischen Drama bis zur Zeit des Bürgerkrieges / von Herman Graf (Schwerin, I. M. : Ed. Herberger's Buchdruckerei, [1892?]), by Herman Graf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English moralities from the point of view of allegory. (Boston, Ginn, 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English moralities from the point of view of allegory. (Boston, Ginn, 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satire in the early English drama, (Columbus, Ohio, The F. J. Heer printing co., 1914), by Eva Marie. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The original identity of the York and Towneley cycles ([Minneapolis, Minn., 1919]), by Marie Caroline Lyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the English mystery plays. ([New Haven?, 1892]), by Charles Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New testament story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British museum : including notices of ecclesiastical shows ... / by William Hone ; with engravings on copper and wood. (London : W. Hone, 1823), by William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English religious drama, by Katharine Lee Bates ... (New York, London, Macmillan and Co., 1902), by Katharine Lee Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare : his life, art, and characters : With an historical sketch of the origin and growth of the drama in England / By the Rev. H. N. Hudson. (Boston : Ginn brothers, 1900), by Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliographical and textual problems of the English miracle cycles, by W. W. Greg. (London, A. Moring, 1914), by W. W. Greg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama. (London, Smith, Elder, 1906), by John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient mysteries described; (London, Printed by J. M'Creery, 1823), by William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient mysteries described, (London, W. Hone, 1823, 1860), by William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare: his life, art, and characters. With an historical sketch of the origin and growth of the drama in England... By the Rev. H. N. Hudson ... (Boston, Ginn, Heath & co., 1882), by Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere and his predecessors, by Frederick S. Boas. (New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1896), by Frederick S. Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere and his predecessors, by Frederick S. Boas .... (New York, C. Scribner's sons, [1902]), by Frederick S. Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of English dramatic poetry to the time of Shakespeare : and Annals of the stage to the restoration. (London : G. Bell & sons, 1879), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakespeare; his life, art, and characters : with an historical sketch of the origin and growth of the drama in England / By the Rev. H.N. Hudson. (Boston : Ginn Brothers, 1872), by Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Growth of English Drama, by Arnold Wynne (Gutenberg ebook)

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