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Mankind: Bibliography

Aers, David. “Vox Populi and the Literature of 1381.” In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Ed. David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 432–53.

Alexander, Jonathan J. G. “Labeur and Paresse: Ideological Representations of Medieval Peasant Labour.” Art Bulletin 72 (1990), 436–52.

Ashley, Kathleen M. “Titivillus and the Battle of Words in Mankind.” Annuale Mediaevale 16 (1975), 128–50.

Ashley, Kathleen M., and Pamela Sheingorn, eds. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Axton, Richard. European Drama of the Early Middle Ages. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1974.

Baker, Donald C. “The Date of Mankind.” Philological Quarterly 42 (1963), 90–91.

Baker, Margaret. Folklore and Customs of Rural England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World. Trans. Helene Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Beadle, Richard. “The Scribal Problem in the Macro Manuscript.” English Language Notes 21 (1984), 1–13.

———. “Monk Thomas Hyngham’s Hand in the Macro Manuscript.” In New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle. Ed. Richard Beadle and A. J. Piper. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp. 315–41.

Beene, LynnDianne. “Language Patterns in Mankind.” Language Quarterly 21 (1983), 25–29.

Bevington, David. From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962.

———, ed. Medieval Drama. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Blackburn, Bonnie, and Leofranc Holford-Strevens, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Year. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Brandl, Alois, ed. Quellen des Weltlichen Dramas in England vor Shakespeare. Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner, 1898.

Brannen, Anne. “A Century of Mankind: How a Very Bad Play Became Good.” Medieval Perspectives 15 (2000), 11–20.

Brantley, Jessica, and Thomas Fulton. “Mankind in a Year without Kings.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36 (2006), 321–54.

Camille, Michael. “‘When Adam Delved’: Laboring on the Land in English Medieval Art.” In Agricul­ture in the Middle Ages: Technology, Practice, and Representation. Ed. Del Sweeney. Philadelphia: Uni­versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. Pp. 247–76.

Castle of Perseverance. In The Macro Plays. Ed. Mark Eccles. EETS o.s. 262. London: Oxford Univer­sity Press, 1969. Pp. 1–112.

Chambers, E. K. English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945.

Chambers, Mark. “Physicality, Violence, and the Psychomachia in the Early English Morality Plays.” In Tudor Theatre: Allegory in the Theatre. Ed. Peter Happé. Bern: Peter Lang, 2000. Pp. 1–20.

———. “Weapons of Conversion: Mankind and the Fifteenth-Century Preaching Controversy.” Philo­logical Quarterly 83 (2004), 1–11.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Clopper, Lawrence M. “Mankind and Its Audience.” Comparative Drama 8 (1974), 347–55.

Coldewey, John C. “The Non-Cycle Plays and the East Anglian Tradition.” In Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Ed. Richard Beadle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 189–210.

———, ed. Early English Drama: An Anthology. New York: Garland, 1993.

Coogan, Sister Mary Philippa. An Interpretation of the Moral Play, Mankind. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1947.

Craig, Hardin. “Morality Plays and Elizabethan Drama.” Shakespeare Quarterly 1 (1950), 64–72.

———. English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.

Davenport, Tony. “‘Lusty fresche galaunts.’” In Aspects of Early English Drama. Ed. Paula Neuss. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983. Pp. 110–28.

Davenport, W. A. “Peter Idley and the Devil in Mankind.” English Studies 64 (1983), 106–12.

Dean, James M., ed. Medieval English Political Writings. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Pub­lications, 1996.

Denny, Neville. “Aspects of the Staging of Mankind.” Medium Aevum 43 (1974), 252–63.

Dickens, Bruce, A. M. Armstrong, A. Mawer, and F. M. Stenton. The Place-Names of Cumberland. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950–53.

Digby Mary Magdalene. In The Digby Plays. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. EETS o.s. 70. London: Oxford Uni­versity Press, 1967. Pp. 53–136.

Diller, Hans-Jürgen. “Laughter in Medieval English Drama: A Critique of Modernizing and Historical Analyses.” Comparative Drama 36 (2002), 1–19.

Dillon, Janette. “Mankind and the Politics of ‘English Laten.’” Medievalia et Humanistica 20 (1994), 41–64.

Eccles, Mark. “The Macro Plays.” Notes and Queries 31 (1984), 27–29.

———, ed. The Macro Plays. EETS o.s. 262. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Eisenbichler, Konrad, and Wim Hüsken, eds. Carnival and the Carnivalesque: The Fool, the Reformer, the Wildman, and Others in Early Modern Theatre. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.

Epp, Garrett. “The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind.” In Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler. New York: Garland, 2000. Pp. 303–20.

Everyman” and Its Dutch Original, “Elckerlijc.” Ed. Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, and Ton J. Broos. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.

Farmer, John S., ed. Recently Recovered “Lost” Tudor Plays with Some Others. London: Early English Drama Society, 1907.

Firth, C. B. “Benefit of Clergy in the Time of Edward IV.” English Historical Review 32 (1917), 175–91.

Fletcher, Alan J. “The Meaning of ‘Gostly to Owr Purpos’ in Mankind.” Notes and Queries 31 (1984), 301–02.

Forest-Hill, Lynn. “Mankind and the Fifteenth-Century Preaching Controversy.” Medieval and Ren­aissance Drama in England 15 (2003), 17–42.

Friedman, Albert B. “‘When Adam Delved . . .’: Contexts of a Historic Proverb.” In The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. 213–30.

Furnivall, F. J., and Alfred W. Pollard, eds. The Macro Plays. EETS e.s. 91. London: Oxford University Press, 1904. Pp. 1–34.

Gabel, L. C. Benefit of Clergy in England in the Later Middle Ages. New York: Octagon Books, 1969.

Galloway, Andrew. “The Making of a Social Ethic in Late-Medieval England: From Gratitudo to ‘Kyndenesse.’” Journal of the History of Ideas 55 (1994), 365–83.

Garner, Stanton B., Jr. “Theatricality in Mankind and Everyman.” Studies in Philology 84 (1987), 272–85.

Gash, Anthony. “Carnival against Lent: The Ambivalence of Medieval Drama.” In Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History. Ed. David Aers. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986. Pp. 74–98.

Gayley, Charles Mills. Plays of Our Forefathers and Some of the Traditions upon Which They Were Founded. New York: Duffield and Company, 1907.

Gibson, Gail McMurray. The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Gower, John. Confessio Amantis. Ed. Russell A. Peck, with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway. 3 vols. Kala­mazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000–06.

Happé, Peter. “The Macro Plays Revisited.” European Medieval Drama 11 (2008), 37–57.

Hick Scorner. In Two Tudor Interludes: Youth and Hick Scorner. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Manchester: Man­chester University Press, 1980. Pp.153–238.

Humphrey, Chris. The Politics of Carnival: Festive Misrule in Medieval England. Manchester: Man­chester University Press, 2001.

Jambeck, Thomas J., and Reuben R. Lee. “‘Pope Pokett’ and the Date of Mankind.” Mediaeval Studies 39 (1979), 511–13.

Jennings, Margaret. “Tutivillus: The Literary Career of the Recording Demon.” Studies in Philology 74 (1977), 1–95.

Justice, Steven. Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Keiller, Mabel M. “The Influence of Piers Plowman on the Macro Play of Mankind.” PMLA 26 (1911), 339–55.

King, Pamela M. “Morality Plays.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Ed. Richard Beadle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 240–64.

Langland, William. Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions. Ed. A. V. C. Schmidt. London: Longman, 1995.

Lester, G. A., ed. Three Late Medieval Morality Plays. London: A & C Black, 1997.

Lincoln Diocese Documents, 1450–1544. Ed. A. Clark. EETS o.s. 149. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Lydgate, John. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate: Edited from All Available Manuscripts, with an Attempt to Establish the Lydgate Canon. Part II: Secular Poems. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. EETS o.s. 192. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.

MacKenzie, W. Roy. “A New Source for Mankind.” PMLA 27 (1912), 98–105.

The Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind: A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcriptions. Ed. David Bevington. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972.

Mankind. In Bevington, Medieval Drama. Pp. 901–38.

———. In Coldewey, Early English Drama: An Anthology. Pp. 105–35.

———. In Eccles, The Macro Plays. Pp. xxxvii–xlvi, 153–84, and 216–27.

———. In Farmer, Recently Recovered “Lost” Tudor Plays with Some Others. Pp. 1–40.

———. In Furnivall and Pollard, The Macro Plays. Pp. 1–34.

———. In Lester, Three Late Medieval Morality Plays. Pp. xx–xxv and 1–58.

———. In The Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind, ed. Bevington. Pp. 253–305.

———. In Manly, Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama. Pp. 315–52.

———. In Walker, Medieval Drama: An Anthology. Pp. 258–80.

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Marshall, John. “‘O Ye Soverens that Sytt and Ye Brothern that Stonde Ryght Wppe’: Addressing the Audiences of Mankind.” European Medieval Drama 1 (1997), 189–202.

Masri, Heather. “Carnival Laughter in the Pardoner’s Tale.” Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995), 148–56. “Mundus et Infans.” In Three Late Medieval Morality Plays. Ed. G. A. Lester. London: A & C Black, 1997. Pp. xxx–xxxvii and 107–57.

Neuss, Paula. “Active and Idle Language: Dramatic Images in Mankind.” In Medieval Drama. Ed. Neville Denny. London: Edward Arnold, 1973. Pp. 41–67.

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“Occupation and Idleness.” In Non-Cycle Plays and the Winchester Dialogues: Facsimiles of Plays and Fragments in Various Manuscripts and the Dialogues in Winchester College MS 33. Intro. Norman Davis. Leeds: University of Leeds, 1979. Pp.161–78 and 192–208.

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Piese, Amanda. “Representing Spiritual Truth in Mankind and Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.” In Tudor Theatre: Allegory in the Theatre. Ed. Peter Happé. Bern: Peter Lang, 2000. Pp. 135–44.

Pineas, Rainer. “The English Morality Play as a Weapon of Religious Controversy.” Studies in English Literature 2 (1962), 157–80.

Potter, Robert. The English Morality Play: Origins, History, and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition. London: Routledge, 1975.

Preston, Michael J. “Re-Presentations of (Im)moral Behavior in the Middle English Non-Cycle Play Mankind.” In Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays. Ed. Cathy Lynn Preston. New York: Garland, 1995. Pp. 214–39.

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———. “Some Notes on Mankind.” Modern Philology 14 (1916–17), 45–58 and 293–313.

———. “Mankind and the Mumming Plays.” Modern Language Notes (1917), 21–25.

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———. Ed. Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley. 2 vols. EETS s.s. 13–14. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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