Towneley Plays Introduction Text (20 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Covered in plastic; Early English Text Society Supplementary Series; Vol. 1; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 488 pages.

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Hardback. Condition: New. The new Early English Text Society edition of The Towneley Plays will serve as a definitive edition for many years to come. It replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard, published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called `Wakefield Master' from nine lines (with some internal rhyme) to thirteen lines. The Townley Plays manuscript dates approximately to the year 1500. The plays is contains are often considered the most interesting and stylistically intricate among all those surviving in extant cycles. By both internal and external evidence they are traceable to the city of Wakefield, where they were apparently performed over much of the sixteenth century. Most notable among the contents of the manuscript is `The Second Shepherds Play', which is widely known apart from the cycle and is included in many literary and dramatic anthologies.The cycle itself contains 32 plays on the subject of salvation history from the Creation to the Last Judgement.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 2 vol set. Cloth with clear wrappers .ISBNs 9780197224113/120.

Hardback. Condition: New. The new Early English Text Society edition of The Towneley Plays will serve as a definitive edition for many years to come. It replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard, published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called `Wakefield Master' from nine lines (with some internal rhyme) to thirteen lines. The Townley Plays manuscript dates approximately to the year 1500. The plays is contains are often considered the most interesting and stylistically intricate among all those surviving in extant cycles. By both internal and external evidence they are traceable to the city of Wakefield, where they were apparently performed over much of the sixteenth century. Most notable among the contents of the manuscript is `The Second Shepherds Play', which is widely known apart from the cycle and is included in many literary and dramatic anthologies.The cycle itself contains 32 plays on the subject of salvation history from the Creation to the Last Judgement.…

1st edn. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (near Fine), no dustwrappers. Pp. xlviii + 435 [&] 438-733, illus with b&w frontispiece in vol I (no inscriptions).

Condition: Gebraucht / Used. 1994, 1st eds. Cloth. id2=1648. EETS SS 13 & 14. ISBN: 0 19 722415 6. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Vol 1: ISBN: 019722413X, 1994, xlviii & 435 pp & Vol 2: ISBN: 0197224148, 1994, 436-733 pp.; Early English Text Society S. S. 13 & S. S. 14; 733 pages; This new edition of The Towneley Plays (c. 1500) replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called "Wakefield Master" from nine lines (with some internal rhyme) to thirteen lines. …

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The new Early English Text Society edition of The Towneley Plays will serve as a definitive edition for many years to come. It replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard, published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called `Wakefield Master' from nine lines (with some internal rhyme) to thirteen lines. The Townley Plays manuscript dates approximately to the year 1500. The plays is contains are often considered the most interesting and stylistically intricate among all those surviving in extant cycles. By both internal and external evidence they are traceable to the city of Wakefield, where they were apparently performed over much of the sixteenth century. Most notable among the contents of the manuscript is `The Second Shepherds Play', which is widely known apart from the cycle and is included in many literary and dramatic anthologies.This book is intended for scholars and students of medieval literature and drama. The Early English Text Society edition of The Towneley Plays replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard, published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. The Towneley Plays manuscript dates approximately to the year 1500. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …