The Castle of Perseverance: Bibliography
Anderson, Mary Désirée. Drama and Imagery in English Medieval Churches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.
Bawcutt, Priscilla. “A Note on the Term ‘Morality.’” Medieval English Theatre 28 (2006), 171–74.
Belsey, Catherine. “The Stage Plan of The Castle of Perseverance.” Theatre Notebook 28.3 (1974), 124–32.
Bennett, Jacob. “A Linguistic Study of The Castle of Perseverance.” Unpublished dissertation, Boston University, 1960.
———. “The Castle of Perseverance: Redactions, Place, and Date.” Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962), 141–52.
Bevington, David, ed. The Macro Plays: A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcription. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972.
———. Medieval Drama. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975.
———. “‘Man Thinke on Thine Endinge Day’: Stage Pictures of Just Judgment in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama. Ed. David Bevington. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1985. Pp. 147–77.
Biggins, D. "Chaucer's Summoner: ‘Wel Loved He Garleek, Onyons, and eek Lekes,' C.T. I, 634." Notes and Queries n.s. 11 (1964), 48.
Block, Edward A. "Chaucer's Millers and Their Bagpipes." Speculum 29 (1954), 239–43.
Bloomfield, Morton W. The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept, with Special Reference to Medieval English Literature. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1952.
Braswell, Mary Flowers, ed. Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.
Butterworth, Philip. “Gunnepowdyr, Fyre and Thondyr.” Medieval English Theatre 7.2 (1985), 68–76.
———. Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre. London: Society for Theatre Research, 1998.
The Castle of Perseverance: Full-length Version (1979 production by Poculi Ludique Societas and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, directed by David Parry). University of Toronto Medieval Videotape Collection, 1980 (4 hrs. 15 min.).
———: A Perspective (1979 production by Poculi Ludique Societas and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, directed by David Parry). University of Toronto Medieval Videotape Collection, 1982 (55 min.).
Cauthen, I. B., Jr. “‘The Foule Flibbertigibbet,’ King Lear, III.iv.133; IV.i.60." Notes and Queries 203 (1958), 98–99.
Chase, W. J. The Distichs of Cato. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1922.
Clark, James Midgley. The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Glasgow: Jackson, 1950.
Cornelius, R. The Figurative Castle: A Study in the Mediaeval Allegory of the Edifice with Especial Reference to Religious Writings. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1930.
The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays. Ed. Pamela King and Clifford Davidson. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.
Craik, T. W. The Tudor Interlude. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1958.
Davenport, W. A. Fifteenth-Century English Drama: The Early Moral Plays and Their Literary Relations. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982.
Davidson, Clifford. Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays. New York: AMS Press, 1989.
Dean, James M., ed. Medieval English Political Writings. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996.
Deschamps, Eustache. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1887.
Eccles, Mark, ed. The Macro Plays. EETS o.s. 262. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Elliott, John MacKay. “An Historical Study and Reconstruction of the Fifteenth-Century Play The Castle of Perseverance.” Unpublished dissertation, City University of New York, 1977.
Fifield, Merle. “The Arena Theatres in Vienna Codices 2535 and 2536.” Comparative Drama 2.4 (1968–69), 259–82.
Furnivall, F. J., and A. W. Pollard, eds. The Macro Plays. EETS e.s. 91. London: Oxford University Press, 1904.
Gower, John. Vox Clamantis. In The Complete Works of John Gower. Ed. G. C. Macaulay. Vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. Pp. 3–313.
Happé, Peter, ed. Four Morality Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979.
Happé, Peter, and Wim Hüsken, eds. Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and Theatricality. Ludus ix. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Hildahl, Frances E. “Penitence and Parody in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Early Drama to 1600. Ed. Albert H. Tricomi. Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. 129–41.
Holbrook, S. E. “Covetousness, Contrition, and the Town in the Castle of Perseverance.” Fifteenth-Century Studies 13 (1988), 275–89.
Isbell, Harold, trans. The Last Poets of Imperial Rome. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972.
Johnston, Alexandra F. “Parish Playmaking before the Reformation.” In The Parish in Late Medieval England. Ed. Cliver Burgess and Eamon Duffy. Donington: Tyas and Watkins, 2006. Pp. 325–41.
Kaiser, Walter J. Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.
Kelley, Michael R. Flamboyant Drama: A Study of The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, and Wisdom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979.
Kaske, Robert. "The Summoner's Garleek, Oynons, and Eek Lekes." Modern Language Notes 74 (1959), 481–84.
King, Pamela. “Morality Plays.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Ed. Richard Beadle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 240–64.
Knight, W. Nicholas. “Equity and Mercy in English Law and Drama (1405–1641).” Comparative Drama 6.1 (1972), 51–67.
Langland, William. Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions. Ed. A. V. C. Schmidt. Vol. I. London: Longman, 1995.
Lydgate, John. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. 2 vols. EETS e.s. 107 and o.s. 192. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1911 and 1934.
Mankind. In Eccles, The Macro Plays. Pp. 153–84.
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. In The Complete Works of Christapher Marlowe. Vol. 2. Ed. Roma Gill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
McCutchan, J. Wilson. “Covetousness in The Castle of Perseverance.” University of Virginia Studies 4 (1951), 175–91.
Mills, David. “Diagrams for Staging Plays, Early or Middle 15th Century.” In Local Maps and Plans from Medieval England. Ed. R. A. Skelton and P. D. A. Harvey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. 344–45.
The N-Town Plays. Ed. Stephen Spector. EETS s.s. 11 and 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
———. Ed. Douglas Sugano. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
Owst, G. R. Preaching in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926.
———. Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
Patch, H. R. The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.
Parry, David. “The Castle of Perseverance: A Critical Edition.” Unpublished dissertation, University of Toronto, 1983.
———. “A Margin of Error: The Problems of Marginalia in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Editing Early English Drama: Special Problems and New Directions. Ed. A. F. Johnston. New York: AMS Press, 1987. Pp. 33–64.
Patrologia Latina. Ed. J. P. Migne. Paris: Excudebat Migne, 1844–65.
Pederson, Steven I. “The Staging of The Castle of Perseverance: A Re-analysis.” Theatre Notebook 39.2 (1985), 51–62.
———. “The Staging of The Castle of Perseverance: Testing the List Theory.” Theatre Notebook 39.3 (1985), 104–13.
Pride of Life. In David N. Klausner, ed., Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009. Pp. 9–24.
Proudfoot, Richard. “The Virtue of Perseverance.” In Aspects of Early English Drama. Ed. Paula Neuss. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983. Pp. 92–110.
Ralston, Michael E. “The Four Daughters of God in The Castle of Perseverance.” Comitatus 15 (1984), 35–44.
Riggio, Milla Cozart. “The Allegory of Feudal Acquisition in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Allegory, Myth, and Symbol. Ed. Morton W. Bloomfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. 187–208.
Robertson, D. W., Jr. Preface to Chaucer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Schell, Edgar T. “On the Imitation of Life’s Pilgrimage in The Castle of Perseverance.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968), 235–48.
Schell, Edgar T., and J. D. Schuchter, eds. English Morality Plays and Moral Interludes. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Schmitt, Natalie Crohn. “Was There a Medieval Theatre in the Round?” Theatre Notebook 23.4 (1969), 130–42; 24.1 (1969), 18–25. Both parts reprinted in Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual. Ed. J. Taylor and Alan Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Pp. 295–315.
Scott, Kathleen L. "Sow-and-Bagpipe Imagery in the Miller's Portrait." Review of English Studies 18 (1967), 287–90.
Skelton, John. The Complete English Poems. Ed. John Scattergood. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.
Smart, Walter K. “The Castle of Perseverance: Place, Date, and a Source.” Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature (1923), 42–53.
Southern, Richard. The Medieval Theatre in the Round: A Study of the Staging of The Castle of Perseverance and Related Matters. London: Faber and Faber, 1958.
Speculum Christiani: A Middle English Religious Treatise of the 14th Century. Ed. Gustof Holmstedt. EETS o.s. 182. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.
Tilley, Morris Palmer. A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950.
The Towneley Plays. Ed. Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley. EETS s.s. 13–14. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Traver, Hope. The Four Daughters of God: A Study of the Versions of This Allegory, with Special Reference to Those in Latin, French, and English. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1907.
Tydeman, William. English Medieval Theatre 1400–1500. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. [See especially chapter 3.]
Umphrey, P. J. “The Castle of Perseverance, line 695.” Philological Quarterly 59.1 (1980), 105–07.
Wenzel, Siegfried. “The Three Enemies of Man.” Mediaeval Studies 29 (1967), 47–66.
Wertz, Dorothy C. “The Theology of Nominalism in the English Morality Plays.” Harvard Theological Review 62.3 (1969), 371–74.
Westrem, Scott D. The Hereford Map. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001.
Willis, James. “Stage Directions in The Castell of Perseverance.” Modern Language Review 51 (1956), 404–05.
Withington, Robert. “The Castle of Perseverance, line 695.” Philological Quarterly 14 (1935), 270. Wood, Chauncey. "The Sources of Chaucer's Summoner's ‘Garleek, Oyunons, and eek Lekes.'" Chaucer Review 5 (1971), 240–44.
Bawcutt, Priscilla. “A Note on the Term ‘Morality.’” Medieval English Theatre 28 (2006), 171–74.
Belsey, Catherine. “The Stage Plan of The Castle of Perseverance.” Theatre Notebook 28.3 (1974), 124–32.
Bennett, Jacob. “A Linguistic Study of The Castle of Perseverance.” Unpublished dissertation, Boston University, 1960.
———. “The Castle of Perseverance: Redactions, Place, and Date.” Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962), 141–52.
Bevington, David, ed. The Macro Plays: A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcription. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972.
———. Medieval Drama. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975.
———. “‘Man Thinke on Thine Endinge Day’: Stage Pictures of Just Judgment in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama. Ed. David Bevington. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1985. Pp. 147–77.
Biggins, D. "Chaucer's Summoner: ‘Wel Loved He Garleek, Onyons, and eek Lekes,' C.T. I, 634." Notes and Queries n.s. 11 (1964), 48.
Block, Edward A. "Chaucer's Millers and Their Bagpipes." Speculum 29 (1954), 239–43.
Bloomfield, Morton W. The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept, with Special Reference to Medieval English Literature. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1952.
Braswell, Mary Flowers, ed. Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.
Butterworth, Philip. “Gunnepowdyr, Fyre and Thondyr.” Medieval English Theatre 7.2 (1985), 68–76.
———. Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre. London: Society for Theatre Research, 1998.
The Castle of Perseverance: Full-length Version (1979 production by Poculi Ludique Societas and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, directed by David Parry). University of Toronto Medieval Videotape Collection, 1980 (4 hrs. 15 min.).
———: A Perspective (1979 production by Poculi Ludique Societas and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, directed by David Parry). University of Toronto Medieval Videotape Collection, 1982 (55 min.).
Cauthen, I. B., Jr. “‘The Foule Flibbertigibbet,’ King Lear, III.iv.133; IV.i.60." Notes and Queries 203 (1958), 98–99.
Chase, W. J. The Distichs of Cato. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1922.
Clark, James Midgley. The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Glasgow: Jackson, 1950.
Cornelius, R. The Figurative Castle: A Study in the Mediaeval Allegory of the Edifice with Especial Reference to Religious Writings. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1930.
The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays. Ed. Pamela King and Clifford Davidson. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.
Craik, T. W. The Tudor Interlude. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1958.
Davenport, W. A. Fifteenth-Century English Drama: The Early Moral Plays and Their Literary Relations. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1982.
Davidson, Clifford. Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays. New York: AMS Press, 1989.
Dean, James M., ed. Medieval English Political Writings. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996.
Deschamps, Eustache. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1887.
Eccles, Mark, ed. The Macro Plays. EETS o.s. 262. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Elliott, John MacKay. “An Historical Study and Reconstruction of the Fifteenth-Century Play The Castle of Perseverance.” Unpublished dissertation, City University of New York, 1977.
Fifield, Merle. “The Arena Theatres in Vienna Codices 2535 and 2536.” Comparative Drama 2.4 (1968–69), 259–82.
Furnivall, F. J., and A. W. Pollard, eds. The Macro Plays. EETS e.s. 91. London: Oxford University Press, 1904.
Gower, John. Vox Clamantis. In The Complete Works of John Gower. Ed. G. C. Macaulay. Vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. Pp. 3–313.
Happé, Peter, ed. Four Morality Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979.
Happé, Peter, and Wim Hüsken, eds. Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and Theatricality. Ludus ix. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Hildahl, Frances E. “Penitence and Parody in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Early Drama to 1600. Ed. Albert H. Tricomi. Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. 129–41.
Holbrook, S. E. “Covetousness, Contrition, and the Town in the Castle of Perseverance.” Fifteenth-Century Studies 13 (1988), 275–89.
Isbell, Harold, trans. The Last Poets of Imperial Rome. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972.
Johnston, Alexandra F. “Parish Playmaking before the Reformation.” In The Parish in Late Medieval England. Ed. Cliver Burgess and Eamon Duffy. Donington: Tyas and Watkins, 2006. Pp. 325–41.
Kaiser, Walter J. Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.
Kelley, Michael R. Flamboyant Drama: A Study of The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, and Wisdom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979.
Kaske, Robert. "The Summoner's Garleek, Oynons, and Eek Lekes." Modern Language Notes 74 (1959), 481–84.
King, Pamela. “Morality Plays.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Ed. Richard Beadle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 240–64.
Knight, W. Nicholas. “Equity and Mercy in English Law and Drama (1405–1641).” Comparative Drama 6.1 (1972), 51–67.
Langland, William. Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions. Ed. A. V. C. Schmidt. Vol. I. London: Longman, 1995.
Lydgate, John. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate. Ed. Henry Noble MacCracken. 2 vols. EETS e.s. 107 and o.s. 192. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1911 and 1934.
Mankind. In Eccles, The Macro Plays. Pp. 153–84.
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. In The Complete Works of Christapher Marlowe. Vol. 2. Ed. Roma Gill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
McCutchan, J. Wilson. “Covetousness in The Castle of Perseverance.” University of Virginia Studies 4 (1951), 175–91.
Mills, David. “Diagrams for Staging Plays, Early or Middle 15th Century.” In Local Maps and Plans from Medieval England. Ed. R. A. Skelton and P. D. A. Harvey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. 344–45.
The N-Town Plays. Ed. Stephen Spector. EETS s.s. 11 and 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
———. Ed. Douglas Sugano. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
Owst, G. R. Preaching in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926.
———. Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
Patch, H. R. The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.
Parry, David. “The Castle of Perseverance: A Critical Edition.” Unpublished dissertation, University of Toronto, 1983.
———. “A Margin of Error: The Problems of Marginalia in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Editing Early English Drama: Special Problems and New Directions. Ed. A. F. Johnston. New York: AMS Press, 1987. Pp. 33–64.
Patrologia Latina. Ed. J. P. Migne. Paris: Excudebat Migne, 1844–65.
Pederson, Steven I. “The Staging of The Castle of Perseverance: A Re-analysis.” Theatre Notebook 39.2 (1985), 51–62.
———. “The Staging of The Castle of Perseverance: Testing the List Theory.” Theatre Notebook 39.3 (1985), 104–13.
Pride of Life. In David N. Klausner, ed., Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009. Pp. 9–24.
Proudfoot, Richard. “The Virtue of Perseverance.” In Aspects of Early English Drama. Ed. Paula Neuss. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983. Pp. 92–110.
Ralston, Michael E. “The Four Daughters of God in The Castle of Perseverance.” Comitatus 15 (1984), 35–44.
Riggio, Milla Cozart. “The Allegory of Feudal Acquisition in The Castle of Perseverance.” In Allegory, Myth, and Symbol. Ed. Morton W. Bloomfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. 187–208.
Robertson, D. W., Jr. Preface to Chaucer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Schell, Edgar T. “On the Imitation of Life’s Pilgrimage in The Castle of Perseverance.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968), 235–48.
Schell, Edgar T., and J. D. Schuchter, eds. English Morality Plays and Moral Interludes. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Schmitt, Natalie Crohn. “Was There a Medieval Theatre in the Round?” Theatre Notebook 23.4 (1969), 130–42; 24.1 (1969), 18–25. Both parts reprinted in Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual. Ed. J. Taylor and Alan Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Pp. 295–315.
Scott, Kathleen L. "Sow-and-Bagpipe Imagery in the Miller's Portrait." Review of English Studies 18 (1967), 287–90.
Skelton, John. The Complete English Poems. Ed. John Scattergood. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.
Smart, Walter K. “The Castle of Perseverance: Place, Date, and a Source.” Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature (1923), 42–53.
Southern, Richard. The Medieval Theatre in the Round: A Study of the Staging of The Castle of Perseverance and Related Matters. London: Faber and Faber, 1958.
Speculum Christiani: A Middle English Religious Treatise of the 14th Century. Ed. Gustof Holmstedt. EETS o.s. 182. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.
Tilley, Morris Palmer. A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950.
The Towneley Plays. Ed. Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley. EETS s.s. 13–14. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Traver, Hope. The Four Daughters of God: A Study of the Versions of This Allegory, with Special Reference to Those in Latin, French, and English. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1907.
Tydeman, William. English Medieval Theatre 1400–1500. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. [See especially chapter 3.]
Umphrey, P. J. “The Castle of Perseverance, line 695.” Philological Quarterly 59.1 (1980), 105–07.
Wenzel, Siegfried. “The Three Enemies of Man.” Mediaeval Studies 29 (1967), 47–66.
Wertz, Dorothy C. “The Theology of Nominalism in the English Morality Plays.” Harvard Theological Review 62.3 (1969), 371–74.
Westrem, Scott D. The Hereford Map. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001.
Willis, James. “Stage Directions in The Castell of Perseverance.” Modern Language Review 51 (1956), 404–05.
Withington, Robert. “The Castle of Perseverance, line 695.” Philological Quarterly 14 (1935), 270. Wood, Chauncey. "The Sources of Chaucer's Summoner's ‘Garleek, Oyunons, and eek Lekes.'" Chaucer Review 5 (1971), 240–44.
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