Collected Studies CS1069The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith's major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars, represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series, determined to place the study of medieval drama in a broader context than that of solely reading texts. The publication of Records of Early English Drama, the University of Leeds facsimiles of medieval drama manuscripts, the establishment of the journal and annual meetings of Medieval English Theatre, brought a wider perspective to the discipline. And, by no means least, the bringing to bear of all these ground-breaking developments to the mammoth tasks of recreating in the public domain the original-staging of medieval plays. Peter Meredith had a hand in the formation and lasting influence of all these crucial innovations. The variety and depth of his comprehensive approach to the study of medieval drama and theatre is clearly evinced in each of the essays chosen for this volume.

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Cover 1
Half Title 4
Title Page 6
Copyright Page 7
Table of Contents 8
Acknowledgements 12
Introduction 14
Part I: Matters of manuscript and text 20
1. ‘“Nolo mortem” and the Ludus Coventriae play of the Woman Taken in Adultery’, MÆ, 38 (1969), pp. 38–54 22
2. ‘A reconsideration of some textual problems in the N.Town manuscript (BL MS Cotton Vespasian D viii)’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 9 (1976–77), pp. 35–50 42
3. ‘John Clerke’s hand in the York Register’, Essays in Honour of A.C. Cawley, ed. by Peter Meredith, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 12 for 1980–81 (1981), pp. 245–71 54
4. ‘The York Millers’ pageant and the Towneley Processus Talentorum’, METh, 4.2 (1982), pp. 104–14 80
5. ‘Scribes, texts and performances’, in Aspects of Early English Drama, ed. by Paula Neuss (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1984), pp. 13–29 92
6. ‘The Towneley pageants’, in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, ed. by Richard Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, revised edn, 2008), pp. 152–82 110
7. ‘Establishing an expositor’s role: Contemplacio and the N.Town manuscript’, in The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre, ed. by Philip Butterworth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 289–306 140
Part II: Resuscitating records 158
8. ‘The development of the Mercers’ pageant waggon’, METh, 1.1 (1979), pp. 5–18 160
9. ‘“Item for a grone – iijd” – records and performances’, in Proceedings of the First Colloquium at Erindale College, University of Toronto, 31 Aug.–3 Sept. 1978, ed. by JoAnna Dutka (Toronto: Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, 1979), pp. 26–60 176
10. ‘The Ordo Paginarum and the development of the York Tilemakers’ pageant’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 11 for 1979 (1980), pp. 59–73 200
11. ‘“Make the asse to speake” or staging the Chester Plays’, in Staging the Chester Cycle, ed. by David Mills, Leeds Texts and Monographs, n.s. 9 (1985), pp. 49–76 214
12. ‘The fifteenth-century audience of the York Corpus Christi play: Records and speculation’, in ‘Divers Toyes Mengled’: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Culture in Honour of André Lascombes, ed. by Michel Bitot, Roberta Mullini, and Peter Happé (Tours: Université François Rabelais, 1996), pp. 101–11 240
13. ‘Professional travelling players of the fifteenth century: Myth or reality?’, in European Medieval Drama 1997: Papers from the Second International Conference on Aspects of European Medieval Drama, Camerino, 4–6 July, 1997, ed. by Sydney Higgins (Camerino: Università Degli Studi di Camerino, 1997), pp. 25–40 252
Part III: Performance: Original and modern 266
14. ‘Original-staging production of English medieval plays – ideals, evidence and practice’, in Popular Drama in Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages: A Symposium. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium organized by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at Odense University on 17–18 September, 1986, ed. by Flemming G. Andersen, Julia McGrew, Tom Pettitt and Reinhold Schröder (Odense: Odense University Press, 1988), pp. 65–100 268
15. ‘Mankind in Camerino: Playing the very devil and other matters’, Studies in Theatre Production, 16 (December, 1997), pp. 84–92 302
16. ‘Performance, verse, and occasion in the N-Town Mary Play’, in Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry, ed. by O.S. Pickering (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1997), pp. 205–22 310
17. ‘Carved and spoken words: The angelic salutation, the Mary Play and South Walsham Church, Norfolk’, in Porci ante Margaritam: Essays in honour of Meg Twycross, ed. by Sarah Carpenter, Pamela King, and Peter Meredith, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 32 (Leeds: School of English, University of Leeds, 2001), pp. 369–98 328
18. ‘The sealing of the tomb: N-Town and its context’, in According to the Ancient Custom: Essays presented to David Mills, ed. by Phil Butterworth, Pamela M. King, and Meg Twycross, METh, 29 (2007), pp. 75–88 354
Bibliography 366
Index 372

"The essays selected for this volume reflect Peter Meredith's major contribution to the revival and revision of academic and public interest in medieval English drama and theatre. A number of coinciding factors in the last quarter of the twentieth century brought together a group of scholars, represented here in the Shifting Paradigms series, determined to place the study of medieval drama in a broader context than that of solely reading texts. The publication of Records of Early English Drama, the University of Leeds facsimiles of medieval drama manuscripts, the establishment of the journal and annual meetings of Medieval English Theatre, brought a wider perspective to the discipline. And, by no means least, the bringing to bear of all these ground-breaking developments to the mammoth tasks of recreating in the public domain the original-staging of medieval plays. Peter Meredith had a hand in the formation and lasting influence of all these crucial innovations. The variety and depth of his comprehensive approach to the study of medieval drama and theatre is clearly evinced in each of the essays chosen for this volume."--Provided by publisher

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