Early English Performance, Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Dating, staging, and playing the Chester Whitsun Plays Chapter 1: ‘The Chester Whitsun Plays: Dating of post-Reformation performances from the Smiths’ accounts’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 9 (1977) Chapter 2: ‘Players of the Coopers’ pageant from the Chester Plays in 1572 and 1575’, Theatre Notebook, 33 (1979) Chapter 3: ‘“The Manner of these Playes”: The Chester pageant carriages and the places where they played’, Staging the Chester Cycle, ed. by David Mills (Leeds: Leeds Texts and Monographs, 1985) Chapter 4: ‘Nailing the six-wheeled waggon: A sideview’, Medieval English Theatre, 12.2 (1990) Chapter 5: ‘“Walking in the air”: The Chester shepherds on stilts’, According to the Ancient Custom: Essays presented to David Mills, ed. by Philip Butterworth, Pamela M. King and Meg Twycross, Medieval English Theatre, 29 (2009 for 2007) Part II: Who, where, when, and why: Non-cycle and single episode plays in performance Chapter 6: ‘Marginal staging marks in the Macro manuscript of Wisdom’, Medieval English Theatre, 7.2 (1985) Chapter 7: ‘“Her virgynes, as many as a man wylle”: Dance and provenance in three late medieval plays; Wisdom/The Killing of the Children/The Conversion of St Paul’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 25 (1994) Chapter 8: ‘“Fortune in worldys worschyppe”: The satirising of the Suffolks in Wisdom’, Medieval English Theatre, 14 (1992) Chapter 9: ‘“O ȝe souerens þat sytt and ȝe brothern þat stonde ryght wppe”: Addressing the audience of Mankind’, in European Medieval Drama, 1 (1997), ed. by Sydney Higgins (Turnhout; Brepols) Part III: Archiving the ephemeral: Contemporary depictions of performance and modern productions of medieval plays Chapter 10: ‘The medieval English stage: A graffito of a hell-mouth scaffold?’,Theatre Notebook, 34 (1980) Chapter 11: “‘The Crowning with Thorns and the Mocking of Christ”: A fifteenth-century performance analogue’, TheatreNotebook, 45 (1991) Chapter 12: ‘A Scene from the Life of St Edmund: Dramatic representation in an English medieval alabaster’, Theatre Notebook, 48 (1994) Chapter 13: ‘Modern productions of medieval English plays’, in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, ed. by Richard Beadle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) Part IV: Robin Hood Games: Customary performance and raising funds Chapter 14: ‘“goon in-to Bernysdale”: The trail of the Paston Robin Hood play’, Essays in Honour of Peter Meredith, ed. by Catherine Batt, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998) Chapter 15: ‘“Comyth in Robyn Hode”: Paying and playing the outlaw in Croscombe’, Porci ante Margaritam: Essays in Honour of Meg Twycross, ed. by Sarah Carpenter, Pamela King and Peter Meredith, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 32 (2001) Chapter 16: ‘Gathering in the name of the outlaw: REED and Robin Hood’, in REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years, ed. by Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) Chapter 17: ‘Riding with Robin Hood: English pageantry and the making of a legend’, in The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays, ed. by Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer and Martin Heale (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007) Chapter 18: ‘Picturing Robin Hood in early print and performance: 1500–1590’, in Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern, ed. by Lois Potter and Joshua Calhoun (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008) Chapter 19: ‘Revisiting and revising Robin Hood in sixteenth-century London’, in Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces, ed. by Lesley Coote and Valerie B. Johnson (London and New York: Routledge, 2017) John Marshall’s bibliography Index