A facsimile edition of a landmark in English medieval literature. The original manuscript, in the Huntington Library, is the only one in existence. The Cycle includes the well-known Shepherds' Play, considered a masterpiece of English religious drama.
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"Essential to the study of Middle English drama..." -- Times Literary Supplement.
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Martin Stevens is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
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This review is from: The Towneley Cycle: A Facsimile of Huntington MS HM 1 (Paperback)
A.C. Cawley's edition of the Wakefield Master's plays and the Early English Text Society editions have provided the touchstone for classroom presentation of studies of the Towneley cycle, but they sacrifice what Jerome McGann calls the "bibliographic codes," that sense of the manuscript's distinctive qualities appearing in such elements as layout on the page, handwriting, and marginalia. This 1976 facsimile makes a useful scholarly and pedagogical counterweight: advanced students in particular should study the manuscript along with the Cawley edition to see how he handles his source. With any luck, someone will eventually produce a color CD-ROM of Huntington HM1: until they do, all interested readers should have this.
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