Practicalities of Early English Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging

Peter Meredith is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Drama at the University of Leeds, UK.John Marshall is Senior Research Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Introduction Part I: Matters of Manuscript and Text1. ‘"Nolo Mortem" and the Ludus Coventriae Play of the Woman Taken in Adultery’, M¿, 38 (1969), pp. 38-542. ‘A Reconsideration of Some Textual Problems in the N-Town Manuscript (BL MS Cotton Vespasian D viii)’, LSE, n.s. 9 (1976-77), pp. 35-503. ‘John Clerke’s Hand in the York Register’, Essays in Honour of A.C. Cawley, ed. by Peter Meredith, LSE, n.s. 12 for 1980-81 (1981), pp. 245-714. ‘The York Millers’ Pageant and the Towneley Processus Talentorum’ METh, 4.2 (1982), pp. 104-145. ‘Scribes, Texts and Performances’ in Aspects of Early English Drama, ed. by Paula Neuss (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1984), pp. 13-296. ‘The Towneley cycle’ in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, ed. by Richard Beadle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, second edition, 2008), pp. 134-62, 2nd edn, pp.152-82.7. ‘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. 289-306Part II: Resuscitating Records8. ‘The Development of the Mercers’ Pageant Waggon’, METh, 1.1 (1979), pp. 5-189. ‘"Item for a grone – ijd" – Records and Performances’ in Proceedings of the First Colloquium at Ernindale College, University of Toronto, 31 Aug.-3 Sept. 1978, ed. by JoAnna Dutka (Toronto: Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, 1979), pp. 26-6010. ‘The Ordo Paginarum and the Development of the York Tilemakers’ Pageant’, LSE, n.s. 11 for 1979 (1980), pp. 59-7311. ‘"Make the asse to speake" or Staging the Chester Plays’ in Staging the Chester Cycle, ed. by David Mills, Leeds Texts and Monographs, ns 9 (Leeds).