MEDIEVAL AND TUDOR DRAMA by Gassner, John (editor) - 1987

New York: Applause Books, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 12mo. (xviii) 457 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Preface by John Gassner. The Classical Heritage: Hrotsvitha: Dulcitius; Hrotsvitha: Paphnutius. Pagan Remains: A Christmas Mumming: The Play of Saint (Prince) George. The Christian Ritual Beginnings: The Quem Quaeritis Trope; A Pantomime for Easter Day; An Easter Resurrection Play; The Orleans Sepulcher. The English Passion Play: The Creation and Fall of Lucifer; Man's Disobedience and the Fall of Man; The First Murder: The Murder of Abel; The Deluge: Noah and His Sons; The Brome: Abraham and Isaac; The Second Shepherd's Play; The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors of Coventry; The Death of Herod; The Betrayal of Christ; The (Wakefield) Crucifixion; The Resurrection - Harrowing of Hell - and the Last Judgment. The Cornish Passion Play: The Cornwall Death of Pilate. The Morality Play: Everyman. The Interlude: John Heywood: The Play Called the Four PP. Tudor Comedy: Nicholas Udall: Ralph Roister Doister; Mr. S: Gammer Gurton's Needle. And Tudor Tragedy: Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville: Gorboduc..