Chambers,
E.K. The Mediaeval Stage. 2 vols. London: Oxford
University Press, 1903
Craig,
Hardin. English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
Hardison,
Jr., O.B. Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle
Ages. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1965.
Karl
Young. The Drama of the Medieval Church. 2 vols.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933.
Collections
of Essays (fairly recent):
Alford,
John A., ed. From Page to Performance: Essays in Early
English Drama. East Lansing: Michigan State University
Press, 1995.
Beadle,
Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
(this volume contains excellent bibliographic material divided
into different categories)
Briscoe,
Marianne and John C. Coldewey, ed. Contexts for Early
English Drama, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1989.
Davidson,
Clifford et al, ed. The Drama in the Middle Ages: Comparative
and Critical Essays. New York: AMS Press, 1982.
Cycle
Plays, General:
Kahrl,
Stanley J. Traditions of Medieval English Drama.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975.
Kolve,
V.A. The Play Called Corpus Christi. Stanford: Stanford
UP, 1966.
Nelson,
Alan H. The Medieval English Stage: Corpus Christi Pageants
and Plays. Chicago and London: University of Chicago
Press, 1974.
Prosser,
Eleanor. Drama and Religion in the English Mystery Plays:
A Re-Evaluation. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1961.
Robinson,
J.W. Studies in Fifteenth-Century Stagecraft. Kalamazoo:
Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications,
1991.
Stevens,
Martin. Four Middle English Mystery Cycles: Textual,
Contextual, and Critical Interpretations. Princeton:
Princeton UP, 1987.
Woolf,
Rosemary. The English Mystery Plays. Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972.
Art,
Sermons, and Popular Religion:
Anderson,
M.D. Drama and Imagery in English Medieval Churches.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.
Gibson,
Gail McMurray. The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian
Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Davidson,
Clifford. Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography
and the Macro Morality Plays. New York: AMS Press, 1989.
Owst,
G.R. Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England. 2d
ed., rev. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961.
Scheingorn,
Pamela. "On Using Medieval Art in the Study of Medieval
Drama: an introduction to methodology." Research
Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 22 (1979): 101-109.
Scherb,
Victor I. Staging Faith: East Anglian Drama in the Later
Middle Ages. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press, 2001
Twycross,
Meg. "Beyond the Picture Theory: Image and Activity
in Medieval Drama." Word and Image 4 (1988):
589-617.
Studies
of Individual Cycles:
Davidson,
Clifford. From Creation to Doom: The York Cycle of Mystery
Plays. New York: AMS Press, 1984.
Gardner,
John. The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle. Carbondale
and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974.
Lumiansky,
R.M. and David Mills. The Chester Mystery Cycle: Essays
and Documents. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1983.
Palmer,
Barbara. "Towneley Plays or Wakefield
Cycle Revisited." Comparative Drama
(1988): 318-48.
Stevens,
Martin. "Language as Theme in the Wakefield Plays."
Speculum 52 (1977): 100-17.
Travis,
Peter W. Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1982
Morality
Plays:
Bevington,
David. From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in
the Popular Drama of Tudor England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1962.
Davenport,
W.A. Fifteenth-Century English Drama: The Early Moral
Plays and Their Literary Relations. Cambridge: D.S.
Brewer, 1982.
Potter,
Robert. The English Morality Play. London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1975.
Staging:
Davidson,
Clifford. Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England
to 1580. Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series,
16. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute
Publications, 1991.
Meredith,
Peter and John E. Tailby, eds. The Staging of Religious
Drama in Europe in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Documents
in English Translation. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan
University, Medieval Institute Publications, 1983.
Mills,
David. Staging the Chester Cycle. Leeds: University
of Leeds, School of English, 1985.
Southern,
Richard. The Medieval Theatre in the Round. London:
Faber, 1957. 2nd ed. 1975.
Documents
and Records:
Coletti,
Theresa. "Reading REED: History and the Records
of Early English Drama." In Literary Practice and
Social Change in Britain 1380-1530, ed. Lee Patterson.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford: University of California
Press, 1990. 248-84.
Johnston,
Alexandra F. "What if No Texts Survived? External Evidence
for Early English Drama." In Contexts for Early
English Drama, ed. M. Briscoe and J. C. Coldewey. Bloomington
and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. 1-9.
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"All the World Was a Stage: Records of
Early English Drama." In The Theatre of Medieval
Europe: New Research in Early Drama, ed. Eckehard Simon.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 117-29
Records
of Early English Drama series. Toronto: University of
Toronto, 1978