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John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works: Bibliography

EDITIONS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

The dolefull dance and song of death; intituled, dance after my pipe. [London]: F. Coles, J. Wright, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson, [1655–58]. [Shaking of the Sheets]

The dolefull dance and song of death; intituled; Dance after my pipe. London: F. Coles, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson, [1658–64]. [Shaking of the Sheets]

The doleful Dance and Song of Death; Intituled, Dance after my Pipe. [London]: F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright, [1663–74?]. [Shaking of the Sheets]

The doleful Dance, and Song of Death; Intituled, Dance after my pipe. [London]: T. Vere, I. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger, [1678–81]. [Shaking of the Sheets]

Dalrymple, Sir David Dalrymple, ed. “The Ressoning betwixt Deth and Man.” Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS. of George Bannatyne. Edinburgh: A. Murray and J. Cochran for John Balfour, 1770. Pp. 134–35.

La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, precédée du dict des trois mors et des trois vifz, du debat du corps et de l’âme et la complaincte de l’âme dampnée. Paris: Bailleu, 1862. [French Danse Macabre]

Laing, David, ed. “The Ressoning betwixt Deth and Man.” In The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson: Now First Collected with Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1865. Pp. 27–29.

de Lincy, Le Roux, and L. M. Tisserand, eds. “La danse macabre reproduite textuellement d’apres l’unique exemplaire connu de l’édition princeps de Guyot Marchant (Paris, 1485) et completée avec l’édition de 1486.” In Paris et ses historiens aux XIVe et XVe Siècles. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1867. Pp. 291–317. [French Danse macabre]

Murdoch, James Barclay, ed. “The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man.” In The Bannatyne Manuscript. 4 vols. in 11 parts, paged continuously. Glasgow: Anderson, 1873–96. 2.153–55.

Dufour, Valentin, ed. La dance macabre peinte sous les charniers des Saints Innocents de Paris (1425): reproduction de l’édition princeps donnée par Guyot Marchant, texte et gravures sur bois (1485). Paris: Féchoz, 1874. Rpt. 1875, 1891. [French Danse macabre]

Horstmann, Carl, ed. “The Messengers of Death.” In “Naträge zu den Legenden.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 79 (1887), 432–34.

Chappell, W., ed. “The Dance and Song of Death.” In Roxburghe Ballads vol. III. Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons, 1880; Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1966, pp. 183–86. [Shaking of the Sheets]

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. “Of Þre Messagers of Deeth.” In The Minor Poems of the Vernon MS., Part II (with a few from the Digby MSS. 2 and 86). 2 Vols. EETS o.s. 177. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1901. 2:443–48.

Söderhjelm, Werner, ed. “Le miroir des dames et demoiselles,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 6.2 (1904), 29–35.

Glixelli, Stefan, ed. Les cinq poèmes des trois morts et des trois vifs. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1914.

Champion, Pierre, ed. La danse macabre, reproduction en fac-similé de l'édition de Guy Marchant, Paris, 1486. Paris: Éditions des Quatre Chemins, 1925. [French Danse macabre]

Hammond, Eleanor Prescott, ed. “The Dance Macabre.” English Verse between Chaucer and Surrey: Being Examples of Conventional Secular Poetry, Exclusive of Romance, Ballad, Lyric, and Drama, in the Period from Henry the Fourth to Henry the Eighth. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1927. Pp. 131–42. [Lydgate’s Dance of Death, A version]

Ritchie, W. Tod, ed. “The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man.” In The Bannatyne Manuscript Written in Tyme of Pest, 1568, by George Bannatyne. 4 vols. STS 3rd series 5; 2nd series 22, 23, 26. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1928–34. 1:71–73; 2:139–41.

Warren, Florence. and Beatrice White, eds. “The Daunce of Death.” In The Dance of Death, Edited from MSS. Ellesmere 26/A.13 and B.M. Lansdowne 699, Collated with the Other Extant MSS. EETS o.s. 181. London: Oxford University Press, 1931; Rpt. New York: Klaus Reprint Co., 1971. Pp. 1–77. [Lydgate’s Dance of Death, A and B versions]

———. “The French Text.” In The Dance of Death, Edited from MSS. Ellesmere 26/A.13 and B.M. Lansdowne 699, Collated with the Other Extant MSS. EETS o.s. 181. London: Oxford University Press, 1931; Rpt. New York: Klaus Reprint Co., 1971. Pp. 79–96. [French Danse macabre]

Brunner, Karl, ed. “Dance of Makabre.” In “Mittelenglische Todesgedichte.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 167 (1935), 27–28, 30. [Dawnce of Makabre]

Brown, Carleton Fairchild, ed. “A Mirror for Young Ladies at their Toilet.” In Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1939. P. 241.

Chaney, Edward F., ed. La danse macabré des charniers des Saints Innocents à Paris. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1945. [French Danse macabre]

Cutler, John L., ed. “No. 2136, A Mirror for Young Ladies at their Toilet.” In “A Middle English Acrostic.” Modern Language Notes 70.2 (1955), 88.

Wood, Henry Harvey, ed. “The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man.” In The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson. Second Edition. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1933; Rpt. 1958. Pp. 211–12.

MacCracken, Henry Noble, ed. “Death’s Warning.” In The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, Edited from all Available MSS., with an Attempt to Establish the Lydgate Canon. Part II: Secular Poems. EETS o.s. 192. London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Rpt. 1961. Pp. 655–57.

Gray, Douglas, ed. “A Dolfull Daunce & Song of Death Intituled: the Shakeing of the Sheetes.” In “Two Songs of Death.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 64 (1963), 64–67.

Rosenfeld, Hellmut, ed. “Die Vado-Mori-Elegie.” In Der mittelalterliche Totentanz: Entstehung—Entwicklung—Bedeutung. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1968. Pp. 323–26.

Smith, G. Gregory, ed. “The Ressoning betwixt Deth and Man.” In The Poems of Robert Henryson. 3 vols. STS 1st series 55, 58, 64. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906–14. Rpt. New York, 1968. 3.134–38.

Woolf, Rosemary, ed. “Mi Leeve Liif.” In The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Pp. 317–18. [Warning Spoken by the Soul of a Dead Person]

Doty, Brant Lee, ed. “Dawnce of Makabre.” In “An Edition of British Museum Manuscript Additional 37049: a Religious Miscellany.” Ph.D. Dissertation: Michigan State University, 1969. Pp. 206–11. [Dawnce of Makabre]

Silverstein, Theodore, ed. “Cest le Myrroure pur les Iofenes Dames.” In Medieval English Lyrics. London: Edwin Arnold Ltd., 1971. Pp. 121–22. [A Mirror for Young Ladies]

Saugnieux, Joël, ed. “La danse macabre française de Guyot Marchant (1486).” In Les danses macabres de France et d’Espagne et leurs prolongements littéraires. Lyon: Emmanuel Vitte, 1972. Pp. 143–64. [French Danse macabre]

———. “Danza general.” In Les danses macabres de France et d’Espagne et leurs prolongements littéraires. Lyon: Emmanuel Vitte, 1972. Pp. 165–82.

Hirsh, John C., ed. “Index of Middle English Verse No. 2255.” In “Prayer and Meditation in Late Mediaeval England: MS Bodley 789.” Medium Ævum 48 (1979), 61–62. [Warning Spoken by the Soul of a Dead Person]

Fox, Denton, and William A. Ringler, eds. “The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man.” The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland Advocates’ MS. 1.1.6. London: Scolar Press, in Association with The National Library of Scotland, 1980. Pp. 43–44. Fols. 56r–57r.

Kaiser, Gert, ed. and trans. “La danse macabre” in Der tanzende Tod: Mittelalterliche Totentänze. Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verlag, 1982. Pp. 72–107. [French Danse macabre]

Hogg, James, ed. “A Morbid Preoccupation with Mortality? The Carthusian London British Library MS. Add. 37049.” Zeit, Tod und Ewigkeit in der Renaissance Literatur 2 (1986), 52–54. [Dawnce of Makabre]

Doyle, I. A., ed. The Manuscript. A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. Poet.a.1, with an introduction by A.I. Doyle. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987. Fols. 297vc–98rb. [Three Messengers of Death]

Parkinson, David J., ed. “The Ressoning betwix Deth and Man.” In Robert Henryson: The Complete Works. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2010. Pp. 155–56.

Scase, Wendy, and Nick Kennedy , eds. (software). A Facsimile Edition of the Vernon Manuscript: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1. Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2011. Fols. 297vc–98rb. [Three Messengers of Death]

Fein, David A., ed. and trans. The Danse Macabre Printed by Guyot Marchant, 1485. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. [French Danse macabre]

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