Mysteries and miracle-plays, English -- History and criticism
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Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Printed for W. Hone, 1823), by William Hone, illust. by George Cruikshank- Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles (London: A. Moring, 1914), by W. W. Greg
- Stage Properties, Costumes, Scenery and Music of the English Miracle Plays (University of Illinois masters thesis, 1906), by Allie V. Parks
- Records of Early English Drama: York (2 volumes; Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1979), ed. by Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Rogerson
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Filed under: Mysteries and miracle-plays, English- The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
- 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 Towneley Plays (EETS extra series #71; 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 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
- 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)
- The Digby Plays; With an Incomplete "Morality" of Wisdom, Who is Christ (EETS extra series #70; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, N. Trübner and Co., 1896), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall
- 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)
- Five Miracle Plays, or Scriptural Dramas (London: Privately printed, 1836), ed. by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 (EETS extra series #120; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by K. S. Block
- The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
- The Non-Cycle Mystery Plays, Together With the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Pride of Life (EETS extra series #104; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1909), ed. by Osborn Waterhouse
- The Old Miracle Plays of England, by Netta Syrett, illust. by Helen Thorp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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)
- Three Chester Whitsun Plays (Chester: Phillipson and Golder, 1906), ed. by Joseph Cox Bridge (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Towneley Plays, ed. by George England (HTML at Michigan)
- History of the Holy Trinity Guild, at Sleaford, With an Account of its Miracle Plays, Religious Mysteries, and Shows, As Practiced in the Fifteenth Century (Lincoln: E. B. Drury, 1837), by George Oliver (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)
- Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays: 1. The Shearmen and Taylor's Pageant, Re-edited from the Edition of Thomas Sharp, 1825; and 2. The Weavers' Pageant, Re-edited from the Manuscript of Robert Croo, 1534; With a Plan of Coventry, and Appendixes Containing the Chief Records of the Coventry Plays (EETS extra series #87; London: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1902), ed. by Hardin Craig
- The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)
- The Jew in Drama (London: P. S. King and Son, 1926), by M. J. Landa
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself (new edition with notes and supplement, in 2 volumes; London: J. C. Nimmo, 1889), by Colley Cibber, ed. by Robert William Lowe, illust. by Robert Bowyer Parkes and Adolphe Lalauze
- Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage, and of the Economy and Usages of the Ancient Theatres in England (Basel, Switzerland: J. J. Tourneisen, 1800), by Edmond Malone, contrib. by George Steevens
- Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce
- The Rise of Sentimental Comedy (Olney, IL: The author, 1926), by James E. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce
- The English Moralities From the Point of View of Allegory (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie
- Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Joanne Klein (PDF at Ohio State)
- Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005), by Daniel O'Quinn (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Poetics of Jacobean Drama (originally published 1981; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- A Materialist Critique of English Romantic Drama (Gainesville et al.: University Press of Florida, c1993), by Daniel P. Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Prometheus Unbound (University of Michigan Publications, Language and Literature, v27; Ann Arbir: University of Michigan Press, 1957), by Bennett Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Poetics of Jacobean Drama (originally published 1981; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
- The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Contemporaries of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise (HTML at Indiana)
- Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005), by Daniel O'Quinn (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Gothic Drama From Walpole to Shelley (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1947), by Bertrand Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Drama of Sensibility: A Sketch of the History of English Sentimental Comedy and Domestic Tragedy, 1696-1780 (Harvard Studies in English v3; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1915), by Ernest Bernbaum
- Jewish Characters in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction and Drama (Groningen, Netherlands: J. B. Wolters, 1935), by Harm Reijnderd Sientjo van der Veen (page images at delpher.nl)
- The Rise of Sentimental Comedy (Olney, IL: The author, 1926), by James E. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
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