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The Towneley plays

Epp, Garrett P J(Edited by)
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The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire.

Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.

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1580442846 / 9781580442848
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
822.2
28/02/2018
English
595 pages
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