The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia

First full examination of the N-Town Play, arguing for its reappraisal as a work of private devotion as well as public performance. WINNER OF THE BEATRICE WHITE PRIZE, 2011 The dramatic text known as the N-Town Play, from fifteenth-century East Anglia, is a significant but mysterious compilation of late-medieval vernacular theatre. It differs radically from the better-known Northern medieval mystery plays in that it offers a double cycle of Christ's life together with that of the Virgin Mary, in