A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge

Edited by Clifford Davidson with commentary on the dialect by Paul A. Johnston, Jr.

Book cover: A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge

Extent: 192 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2012)

ISBN: 9781580441711

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $19.95

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A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, usually believed to have been written between 1380 and 1425, is the longest and most significant piece of dramatic criticism in Middle English. It reflects the hostility of Wycliffite (or Lollard) authors toward dramatic representation and related activity, especially religious drama.


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.

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, 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

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