PERPETUALLY EDITING TOWNELEY: A Speculative Textual Note on Mrs Noah’s ‘Stafford Blue’

• Autores: Pamela King
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 44, 2023, págs. 36-47
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many of us grew up with England and Pollard’s edition of The Towneley Plays¹ and with Arthur Cawley’s selection, The Wakefield Pageants in the Towneley Cycle.² We now work with the Early English Text Society edition by Stevens and Cawley,³ which took so long to appear that aspects of its commentary were already out of date by the time it was published, and with Garrett Epp’s TEAMS edition,⁴ which moved faster. The Towneley manuscript, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library MS HM1, to give it its full designation, has attracted, and is still attracting, so much new scholarship, especially in the...