HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LETTERS
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Course
Instructor
Year/Term
Class hours
Classroom
: İED 657/757 Medieval English Drama
: Prof.Dr. Burçin Erol
: 2011-2012 Fall
: Tuesday 13:15-17:00
: Department Seminar Room
Aim of the course: is to trace the re-emergence and development of drama in England
during the Middle Ages and Tudor period . The miracle, mystery and saints plays ,
moralities and interludes will be the main concern of the studies. Liturgical drama, folk
plays, and various May games and festivities will be dealt with before the in depth study of
the mentioned types of plays. The staging, performance, costume,acting-actors, audience
and other conventions related to each type will be analysed. The move from liturgical,
religious and allegorical plays towards secular, satirical and renaissance drama will be
especially emphasized.
Course outline:
Week I-II
Medieval background:social, historical,cultural, and religious conditions
Week III-IV Disappearance of drama, rituals, festivals, various performances and
entertainment, May games, folk plays Robinhood plays ,liturgical drama
development of mystery and miracle plays.
Hrotsvitha Dulcitius , Paphnutius
The Play of Robin Hood and the Sherif
The play of Robin Hood and the Friar
Early staging-setting, guilds’performances and cycles in relation to the
religious calendar.
Week V-VIII Study of the texts in English Mystery Plays, Peter Happe
Week IX-XI Morality plays;allegorical representation, roots in other non-dramatic
literary works, staging-setting, other aspects of dramatisation
Everyman
Wisdom
Mankind
Castle of Perseverance
Hickscorner
WeekXII-XIV The interludes,changing performance conditions and audience;moral
historical,political, satirical characteristics; theinfluence of Protestanism;
contribution of the university wits.
John Heywood
The Four Ps
The Play of the Weather
Henry Medwall
Fulgens and Lucrese
John Redford
Wit and Science
John Bale
The Three Laws
John Skelton
Magnificence
NB. Due to circumstances changes may be made in the list of the primary works to be
studied
Method of instruction: The course will be conducted in lectures, paper presentations
and class discussions. The generic and background information will be in lectures. The
theoretic material will be supported with visual material. The students will each present
papers on the the mystery plays and on one morality play and/or an interlude . Each
student will hand in a formal research paper(double spaced,10 pages,MLA format)
comparing a mystery play of her/his own choice from three different cycles.
The students are expected to come to class having read ALL the primary texts, to do
research and secondary reading and to take part in class discussions.
Assessment: 20% presentations
20% formal term paper
20% midterm
40% final examination
Text book/ Anthologies & collections:
B anon.
Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays
PR1260. E9 1995
B Beadle,Richard
York Mystery Plays
PR 1261. Y67 1991
B Bevington,David
Medieval Drama
PR 1260 M4 1975
B Happe, Peter
Four Morality Plays
PR 1259.M6 F6 1979
B _______.
English Mystery Plays
1975
H Purvis,JS
The York Cycle of Mystery Plays
PR 1260. P978 Y6
BH Rose,Martial
The Wakefield Mystery Plays
PR643.M8 W147 1969
B Walker, Greg
Medieval Drama
PR 1260.M43 2000
BH Woolf,Rosemary The English Mystery Plays
PR 643. M8 W66 1972
Secondary sources:
B Beadle, Richard
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
PN 2587 C36 1994
B Briscoe, Marianne & Contexts for Early English Drama
Johne Coldeway ed PR 641 C.761 1987
B Davidson ,Clifford Visualising the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the
Macro Morality Plays
PR 643 M7 D43 1989
B_______.
Technology,Guilds and Early English Drama
PN2587 D38 1996
B Diller,Hans-Jürgen The Middle English Mystery Play
PR643 M8 D578 1992
B Dillon,Janette
Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England
PR646 D55 1998
B Goodman,Jennifer R British Drama before 1660:A Critical History
PR 651 G66 1990
B Happe, Peter
English Drama before Shakespeare
PR646 H36 1999
B Jack, RDS
Patterns of Divine Comedy: A Study of Medieval English
Drama
PR 643 C67 S3 1987
B Norbund,Howard B Drama in Early Tudor Britain 1485-1558
PR 646 N67 1995
B Pederson,Steven I The Tournament Tradition and the Staging of Castle of
Perseverance
PR 644 C32 P43 1987
H Prosser,Eleanor
Drama and Religion in the English Mystery Plays
PR 643 M8 P7 1961
B Ricks, Christopher,ed English Drama to 1710
PR 625. E5 1987
B Richardson, Christine Medieval Drama
& Jackie Johnston PR 641. R521 1991
B Riggio, Milla Cozart,ed The Wisdom Symposium
PR 644 W58 W57 1986
B Shepherd,Simon& English Drama: A Cultural History
Peter Worck
PR 625 S54 1996
B Şahinbaş, İrfan
İngiliz Tiyatro Tarihi
PR 625 S23 1950 v1 c2
B:Bilkent University Library
H: Hacettepe University Library(Beytepe)
HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LETTERS
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Course
Instructor
Year/Term
Class hours
Classroom
: İED 657/757 Medieval English Drama
: Prof.Dr. Burçin Erol
: 2011-2012 Fall
: Tuesday 13:00-17:00
: Department Seminar Room
Suggested Reading List
B Happe,Peter
B Walker, Greg
English Mystery Plays
Medieval Drama
Mystery Plays
Morality plays
Everyman
Wisdom
Mankind
Castle of Perseverance
Hickscorner
Interludes
John Heywood
The Four Ps
The Play of the Weather
Henry Medwall
Fulgens and Lucrese
John Redford
Wit and Science
John Bale
The Three Laws
John Skelton
Magnificence
Text book/ Anthologies & collections:
B anon.
Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays
PR1260. E9 1995
B Beadle,Richard
York Mystery Plays
PR 1261. Y67 1991
B Bevington,David
Medieval Drama
PR 1260 M4 1975
B Happe, Peter
Four Morality Plays
PR 1259.M6 F6 1979
B _______.
English Mystery Plays
1975
H Purvis,JS
The York Cycle of Mystery Plays
PR 1260. P978 Y6
BH Rose,Martial
The Wakefield Mystery Plays
PR643.M8 W147 1969
B Walker, Greg
Medieval Drama
PR 1260.M43 2000
BH Woolf,Rosemary The English Mystery Plays
PR 643. M8 W66 1972
Secondary sources:
B Beadle, Richard
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
PN 2587 C36 1994
B Briscoe, Marianne & Contexts for Early English Drama
Johne Coldeway ed PR 641 C.761 1987
B Davidson ,Clifford Visualising the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the
Macro Morality Plays
PR 643 M7 D43 1989
B_______.
Technology,Guilds and Early English Drama
PN2587 D38 1996
B Diller,Hans-Jürgen The Middle English Mystery Play
PR643 M8 D578 1992
B Dillon,Janette
Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England
PR646 D55 1998
B Goodman,Jennifer R British Drama before 1660:A Critical History
PR 651 G66 1990
B Happe, Peter
English Drama before Shakespeare
PR646 H36 1999
B Jack, RDS
Patterns of Divine Comedy: A Study of Medieval English
Drama
PR 643 C67 S3 1987
B Norbund,Howard B Drama in Early Tudor Britain 1485-1558
PR 646 N67 1995
B Pederson,Steven I The Tournament Tradition and the Staging of Castle of
Perseverance
PR 644 C32 P43 1987
H Prosser,Eleanor
Drama and Religion in the English Mystery Plays
PR 643 M8 P7 1961
B Ricks, Christopher,ed English Drama to 1710
PR 625. E5 1987
B Richardson, Christine Medieval Drama
& Jackie Johnston PR 641. R521 1991
B Riggio, Milla Cozart,ed The Wisdom Symposium
PR 644 W58 W57 1986
B Shepherd,Simon& English Drama: A Cultural History
Peter Worck
PR 625 S54 1996
B Şahinbaş, İrfan
İngiliz Tiyatro Tarihi
PR 625 S23 1950 v1 c2
B:Bilkent University Library
H: Hacettepe University Library(Beytepe)