CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. ANNALS OF THE STAGE From the accession of Charles I. to the year 1635.....p. 1. From the year 1635 to the closing of the Theatres....p. 65. HISTORY OF DRAMATIC POETRY. Introduction to Miracle-plays.....p. 123. Review of the Widkirk, Chester, and Coventry Miracle- Review of the Digby Miracle-plays..... p. 230. Three plays on the Conversion of St. Oreginale de Sancta Maria Magdalena. Childermas Day: or, The Slaughter of Review of Printed Religious Plays.....p. 236. Christ's Temptation, by John Bale. Mary Magdalen, by Lewis Wager. Interlude of King Darius. History of Jacob and Esau. Tragedy of Abraham's Sacrifice. Interlude of Godly Queen Hester. Definition of a Moral, or Moral-play. ral-plays. Allegorical personages. The Devil and the Vice. Mistakes regarding the Vice. Representation of Moral-plays. Interludes, and the time of their per- The Cradle of Security. The Play of Plays in Gosson's Plays con- futed in five Actions. Defence of Plays, by Thomas Lodge. Nature, by Henry Medwall. The World and the Child. Hick Scorner. Every-man. The Interlude of Youth. Magnificence, by John Skelton. The longer thou livest, the more Fool John Redford's MS. Moral-plays. All for Money, by Thomas Lupton. The Disobedient Child, by T. Ingelend. |