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Two Moral Interludes: Bibliography

“The Abuses of the Age.” In Queene Elizabethes Achademy, etc. Ed. F. J. Furnivall. EETS e.s. 8. London: Trübner, 1869. P. 88.

Baker, D. C., J. L. Murphy, and L. B. Hall, Jr., eds. The Late Medieval Religious Plays of Bodleian MSS Digby 133 and E. Museo 160. EETS o.s. 283. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Beadle, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bennett, Josephine Waters. “The Mediaeval Loveday.” Speculum 33 (1958), 351–70.

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

———. “Political Satire in the Morality Wisdom Who Is Christ.” Renaissance Papers (1964), 41–51.

———. Tudor Drama and Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.

———, ed. The Macro Plays: A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcription. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972.

———. “Castles in the Air: The Morality Plays.” In The Theatre of Medieval Europe: New Research in Early Drama. Ed. Eckehard Simon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 97–116.

Bonaventure. Soliloquies. In Opera omnia. Vol. 8. Ed. A. Lauer. Florence: Quaracchi, 1898. Pp. 28–67.

Brandl, Alois, ed. “Der Stolz des Lebens.” In Quellen des Weltlichen Dramas in England vor Shakespeare: Ein Ergänzungsband zu Dodsley’s Old English Plays. Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner, 1898. Pp. 1-35.

Brown, Pamela A., and Peter Parolin, eds. Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Clark, Marlene, Sharon Kraus, and Pamela Sheingorn. “‘Se in what stat thou doyst indwell’: The Shifting Constructions of Gender and Power Relations in Wisdom.” In The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens. Ed. James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998. Pp. 43–57.

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

Craik, T. W. The Tudor Interlude: Stage, Costume, and Acting. 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.

Davis, Norman, ed. Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments. EETS s.s. 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.

———, ed. Non-Cycle Plays and the Winchester Dialogues. Leeds: Leeds University Press, 1979.

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

Doyle, A. I., ed. The Vernon Manuscript: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library MS. Eng.poet.a.1. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987.

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

Fallows, David. “The Gresley Dance Collection, c. 1500.” Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 29 (1996), 1–20.

Fifield, Merle. “The Use of Doubling and ‘Extras’ in Wisdom, Who Is Christ.” Ball State University Forum 6.3 (1965), 65–68.

Fletcher, Alan J. Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. [Especially pp. 82–90.]

Gatch, Milton McC. “Mysticism and Satire in the Morality of Wisdom.” Philological Quarterly 53 (1974), 342–62.

Gesta Romanorum. Ed. S. Herrtage. EETS e.s. 33. London: Oxford University Press, 1896.

Gibson, Gail McMurray. “The Play of Wisdom and the Abbey of St. Edmunds.” In Riggio, ed., “Wisdom” Symposium. Pp. 39–66.

———. 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. 3 vols. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Pub­lications, 2002–06.

Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro. “De pratica seu arte tripudii.” On the practice or art of dancing. Ed. and trans. Barbara Sparti. Poems trans. Michael Sullivan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Happé, Peter, ed. Tudor Interludes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

Harrison, William. The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life. Ed. Georges Edelen. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968.

Hengstebeck, Irmlind. “Wer träumt in The Pride of Life?” Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 208 (1972), 120–22.

Hill, Eugene D. “The Trinitarian Allegory of the Moral Play of Wisdom.” Modern Philology 73 (1975), 121–35.

Hilton, Walter. Walter Hilton’s Mixed Life Edited from Lambeth Palace MS 472. Ed. S. J. Ogilvie-Thompson. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1986.

———. The Scale of Perfection. Ed. Thomas H. Bestul. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.

Holthausen, F., ed. “The Pride of Life.” Archiv 108 (1902), 34-48.

Horstmann, C., ed. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole, an English Father of the Church, and His Followers. 2 vols. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1895–96. [Especially vol. 1, pp 264–92.]

Horstmann, K.“Orologium Sapientiae, or The Seven Poyntes of Trewe Wisdom, aus ms. Douce 114.” Anglia 10 (1888), 323–89.

The Hours of Etienne Chevalier. New York: G. Braziller, 1971.

James, M. R., trans. The Apocryphal New Testament. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.

Johnston, Alexandra F. “Wisdom and the Records: Is There a Moral?” In Riggio, ed., “Wisdom” Symposium. Pp. 87–102.

———. “The Audience of the English Moral Play.” Fifteenth Century Studies 13 (1988), 291–97.

———. “Parish Playmaking before the Reformation.” In The Late Medieval Parish. Ed. Clive Burgess and Eamon Duffy. Donington: Tyas and Watkins, 2006. Pp. 322–38.

Jones, Marion. “Early Moral Plays and the Earliest Secular Drama.” In Medieval Drama. Ed. A. C. Cawley, Marion Jones, Peter F. McDonald, and David Mills. The Revels History of Drama in English, vol. 1. London: Methuen, 1983. Pp. 213–91.

Katzenellenbogen, Adolf. Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in Medieval Art: From Early Christian Times to the Thirteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Kelley, Michael R. Flamboyant Drama: A Study of The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, and Wisdom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979.

Kim, H. C., ed. The Gospel of Nichodemus. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1973. King, Pamela M. “Morality Plays.” In Beadle. Pp. 240–64.

Klausner, David N. “The Modular Structure of Wisdom.” In Bring Furth the Pagants: Essays in Early Eng­lish Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston. Ed. David N. Klausner and Karen S. Marsalek. To­ronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 181–96.

Koontz, Christian. “The Duality of Styles in the Morality Play Wisdom Who Is Christ: A Classical-Rhetorical Analysis.” Style 7 (1973), 251–70.

Lancashire, Ian, ed. Two Tudor Interludes: Youth and Hick Scorner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980.

Love, Nicholas. The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. Ed. Michael G. Sargent. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004.

MacKenzie, W. Roy. The English Moralities from the Point of View of Allegory. Boston: Ginn, 1914. Marshall, John. “Marginal Staging Marks in the Macro Manuscript of Wisdom.” Medieval English Theatre 7.2 (1985), 77–82.

Meditationes piissime de cognitione humanae conditionis (of St. Bernard?). In J. P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina. Vol. 184, cols. 485a–507b. Trans. Wynkyn de Worde in The Medytacyens of Saynt Bernarde. 1496 (STC 1917).

Mills, James, ed. The Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 1337–1346, with the Middle English Moral Play “The Pride of Life.” Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1891.

Molloy, John Joseph. A Theological Interpretation of the Moral Play, Wisdom, Who Is Christ. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1952.

Neuss, Paula, ed. Aspects of Early English Drama. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983.

Nevile, Jennifer. “Dance in Early Tudor England: An Italian Connection?” Early Music 26 (May 1998), 230–45.

“The Nine Virtues.” Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 140.80, pp. 132–35.

Nisse, Ruth. Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. [Especially chapter 6, “The Mixed Life in Motion: Wisdom’s Devotional Politics,” pp. 125–48.]

Norland, H. B. Drama in Early Britain, 1485–1558. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

The N-Town Play. Ed. Stephen Spector. 2 vols. EETS s.s. 11–12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

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

Preston, Michael. A Concordance to Four ‘Moral’ Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind, and Everyman. Ann Arbor, MI: University Monographs, 1975.

Pynson, Richard, pub. Processionale ad usum Sarum. Ed. R. Rastall. Kilkenny: Boethius Press, 1980.

Rastall, Richard. The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama. Vol 1. Cambridge: Boy­dell & Brewer, 1996.

———. Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious Drama. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001. [Chapter 16, “Wisdom,” pp. 451–64.]

Riggio, Milla Cozart, ed. The “Wisdom” Symposium: Papers from the Trinity College Medieval Festival. New York: AMS Press, 1986.

———. “The Staging of Wisdom.” In Riggio, ed., “Wisdom” Symposium. Pp. 1–17.

———. “Wisdom Enthroned: Iconic Stage Portraits.” Comparative Drama 23 (1989), 228–54.

———, ed. The Play of Wisdom: Its Texts and Contexts. New York: AMS Press, 1998.

Salisbury, Eve, ed. The Trials and Joys of Marriage. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002.

Scherb, Victor I. Staging Faith: East Anglian Drama in the Later Middle Ages. London: Associated University Presses, 2001.

Schmitt, Natalie Crohn. “The Idea of a Person in Medieval Morality Plays.” Comparative Drama 12 (1978), 23–34.

Smart, Walter Kay. Some English and Latin Sources and Parallels for the Morality of Wisdom. Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing, 1912.

Smith, Mary Frances. Wisdom and Personification of Wisdom Occurring in Middle English Literature before 1500. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1935.

Spivack, Bernard. Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil: The History of a Metaphor in Relation to His Major Villains. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.

Spivack, Charlotte. “Feminine vs. Masculine in English Morality Drama.” Fifteenth Century Studies 13 (1988), 137–44.

Stevens, John, ed. Music at the Court of Henry VIII. Musica Britannica XVIII. London: Stainer and Bell, 1969.

———. Early Tudor Songs and Carols. Musica Britannica XXXVI. London: Stainer and Bell, 1975. Thomas à Kempis. De imitatione Christi: Libri quatuor. Ed. Tiburzio Lupo. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1982.

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Voigts, Linda Ehrsam. “Fifteenth-Century English Banns Advertising the Services of an Itinerant Doctor.” In Between Text and Patient: The Medieval Enterprise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Firenze: Sismel/Edizione del Galluzzo, forthcoming.

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Wasson, John. “The Morality Play: Ancestor of Elizabethan Drama?” Comparative Drama 13 (1979), 210–21.

Wenzel, Siegfried. “The Three Enemies of Man.” Mediaeval Studies 29 (1968), 47–66.

Westfall, Suzanne. Patrons and Performance: Early Tudor Household Revels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Whiting, Bartlett Jere, with the collaboration of Helen Wescott Whiting. Proverbs, Sentences, and Pro­verbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968.

———. Proverbs in the Earlier English Drama. New York: Octagon Books, 1969.

Williams, Arnold. “The English Moral Play before 1500.” Annuale Medievale 4 (1963), 9–12.

Williams, Elijah. Early Holborn and the Legal Quarter of London: A Topographical Survey of the Beginnings of the District Known as Holborn and of the Inns of Court and of Chancery. 2 vols. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1927.