Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in
hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and
punctuation remains unchanged. The first volume is available as Project
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[Illustration: BEGINNING OF DUBLIN _Quem quaeritis_, FROM BODLEIAN
RAWLINSON LITURGICAL MS. D. 4
(14TH CENTURY)]
THE MEDIAEVAL STAGE
BY E. K. CHAMBERS. VOL. II
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
M.CMIII
_Impression of 1925_
_First Edition 1903_
_This impression has been produced photographically by the
MUSTON COMPANY, from sheets of the First Edition_
_Printed wholly in England for the MUSTON COMPANY
By LOWE & BRYDONE, PRINTERS, LTD.
PARK STREET, CAMDEN TOWN, LONDON, N.W. 1._
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
PAGE
PREFACE v
LIST OF AUTHORITIES xiii
BOOK I. MINSTRELSY
CHAP.
I. THE FALL OF THE THEATRES 1
II. MIMUS AND SCÔP 23
III. THE MINSTREL LIFE 42
IV. THE MINSTREL REPERTORY 70
BOOK II. FOLK DRAMA
V. THE RELIGION OF THE FOLK 89
VI. VILLAGE FESTIVALS 116
VII. FESTIVAL PLAY 146
VIII. THE MAY-GAME 160
IX. THE SWORD-DANCE 182
X. THE MUMMERS’ PLAY 205
XI. THE BEGINNING OF WINTER 228
XII. NEW YEAR CUSTOMS 249
XIII. THE FEAST OF FOOLS 274
XIV. THE FEAST OF FOOLS (_continued_) 301
XV. THE BOY BISHOP 336
XVI. GUILD FOOLS AND COURT FOOLS 372
XVII. MASKS AND MISRULE 390
VOLUME II
BOOK III. RELIGIOUS DRAMA
XVIII. LITURGICAL PLAYS 1
XIX. LITURGICAL PLAYS (_continued_) 41
XX. THE SECULARIZATION OF THE PLAYS 68
XXI. GUILD PLAYS AND PARISH PLAYS 106
XXII. GUILD PLAYS AND PARISH PLAYS (_continued_) 124
XXIII. MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS 149
BOOK IV. THE INTERLUDE
XXIV. PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES 179
XXV. HUMANISM AND MEDIAEVALISM 199
APPENDICES
A. THE TRIBUNUS VOLUPTATUM 229
B. TOTA IOCULATORUM SCENA 230
C. COURT MINSTRELSY IN 1306 234
D. THE MINSTREL HIERARCHY 238
E. EXTRACTS FROM ACCOUNT BOOKS 240
I. Durham Priory 240
II. Maxstoke Priory 244
III. Thetford Priory 245
IV. Winchester College 246
V. Magdalen College, Oxford 248
VI. Shrewsbury Corporation 250
VII. The Howards of Stoke-by-Nayland, Essex 255
VIII. The English Court 256
F. MINSTREL GUILDS 258
G. THOMAS DE CABHAM 262
H. PRINCELY PLEASURES AT KENILWORTH 263
I. A Squire Minstrel 263
II. The Coventry Hock-Tuesday Show 264
I. THE INDIAN VILLAGE FEAST 266
J. SWORD-DANCES 270
I. Sweden (sixteenth century) 270
II. Shetland (eighteenth century) 271
K. THE LUTTERWORTH ST. GEORGE PLAY 276
L. THE PROSE OF THE ASS 279
M. THE BOY BISHOP 282
I. The Sarum Office 282
II. The York Computus 287
N. WINTER PROHIBITIONS 290
O. THE REGULARIS CONCORDIA OF ST. ETHELWOLD 306
P. THE DURHAM SEPULCHRUM 310
Q. THE SARUM SEPULCHRUM 312
R. THE DUBLIN QUEM QUAERITIS 315
S. THE AUREA MISSA OF TOURNAI 318
T. SUBJECTS OF THE CYCLICAL MIRACLES 321
U. INTERLUDIUM DE CLERICO ET PUELLA 324
V. TERENTIUS ET DELUSOR 326
W. REPRESENTATIONS OF MEDIAEVAL PLAYS 329
X. TEXTS OF MEDIAEVAL PLAYS AND INTERLUDES 407
I. Miracle-Plays 407
II. Popular Moralities 436
III. Tudor Makers of Interludes 443
IV. List of Early Tudor Interludes 453
SUBJECT INDEX 462
BOOK III
RELIGIOUS DRAMA
heȝe vpon a doune,
þer al folk hit se may,
a mile from þe toune,
aboute þe midday,
þe rode is vp arered;
his frendes aren afered,
ant clyngeþ so þe clay;
þe rode stond in stone,
marie stont hire one,
ant seiþ ‘weylaway’!