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Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to their production and they were to influence later dramatists significantly. The grand design of the mystery plays was to celebrate the Christian story from 'The Fall of Lucifer' to the 'Judgement Day', and this volume contains thirty-eight plays, forming in itself a composite cycle and including almost all the incidents common to the extant cycles.… (altro)
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Adam lay ibowndyn, bowndyn in a bond; Fowre thowsand wynter thowt he not to long. And al was for an appil, an appil that he tok As clerkis fyndyn wretyn in here book.
Ne hadde the appil take ben, the appil taken ben, Ne hadde never our Lady a ben Hevene Qwen. Blyssid be the tyme that appil take was! Therfore we mown syngyn, 'Deo gracias!' --anon., fifteenth century
here their a have mown may
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Introduction
I The cycles of the English mystery plays which are represented in this anthology are one of the chief glories of late medieval literature.
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Et sic facit finem cum melodia angelorum transiens a loco ad locum. [postscript to "Judgment Day"]
Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to their production and they were to influence later dramatists significantly. The grand design of the mystery plays was to celebrate the Christian story from 'The Fall of Lucifer' to the 'Judgement Day', and this volume contains thirty-eight plays, forming in itself a composite cycle and including almost all the incidents common to the extant cycles.