Full Description
Clifford Davidson's newly revised and expanded edition of A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge makes available the most significant text of dramatic criticism in Middle English. A polemic against the playing of "miraclis," the Tretise is frequently linked to the Wycliffite or Lollard movements of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. In an essay on the text's dialect, Paul A. Johnston, Jr. definitively identifies the Tretise as the work of two authors who lived in adjacent counties in the Midlands.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Dialect of A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge by Paul A. Johnston, Jr.
Selected Bibliography
A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge
Textual Notes
Critical Notes
Appendix: The Description of the Classical Theater in the Troy Book of Lydgate
Glossary
