Medieval Period Bibliography

22 Broadview Anthology of British Literature
A.C. Cawley and Martin Stevens, eds., The Towneley
Cycle: A facsimile of Huntington MS, HMI, 1976.
David Bevington, ed., Medieval Drama, 1975.
Martial Rose, ed. The Wakefield Mystery Plays, 1962.
Martin Stevens, The Towneley Plays, 1994.
Martin Stevens and A.C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley
Plays, 2 vols, 1994.
Criticism:
E.K. Chambers, The Mediaeval Stage, 1903.
Hardin Craig, English Religious Drama of the Middle
Ages, 1955.
Warren Edminster, The Preaching Fox: Festive Subversion
in the Plays of the Wakefeild Master, 2005.
Garrett Epp, “The Townley Plays, or, The Hazards of
Cycling,” Research Opportunities in Renaissance
Drama 32, 1993: 121–150.
Garrett Epp, “‘Corrected and Not Playd’: an
Unproductive History of the Townley Plays,” Research
Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 43, 2004: 38–53.
John Gardner, The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle,
1974.
Jeffrey Helterman, Symbolic Action in the Plays of the
Wakefield Master, 1981.
V.A. Kolve, The Play Called Corpus Christi, 1966.
Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master's Dramatic Art:
A Drama of Spiritual Understanding, 2003.
Glynne Wickham, Early English Stages, 1972.
Glynne Wickham, The Medieval Theatre, 1995.
Wulfstan
Text: The text has been newly translated by R. M.
Liuzza for this anthology; the Bethurum edition has
been relied on for the Old English text on which the
translation is based.
Editions:
Dorothy Bethurum, ed., The Homilies of Wulfstan,
1957.
Dorothy Whitelock, ed., Sermo Lupi ad Anglos. Reprint,
with additional bibliography, of Methuen ed., 1976.
Criticism:
J.E. Cross, “Literary Impetus for Wulfstan’s Sermo
Lupi,” Leeds Studies in English 20, 1989: 270–91.
Michael Cummings, “Paired Opposites in Wulfstan’s
Sermo Lupi ad Anglos,” Revue de l’Université
d’Ottawa 50, 1980: 233–43.
Milton McC. Gatch, Preaching and Theology in Anglo-
Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan, 1977.
Joyce Hill, “Ælfric and Wulfstan: Two Views of the
Millennium,” Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related
Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy, eds. Jane
Roberts and Janet Nelson, 2000: 213–35.
Stephanie Hollis, “The Thematic Structure of the Sermo
Lupi,” Anglo-Saxon England 6, 1977: 175–95.
Andy Orchard, “Crying Wolf: Oral Style and the
Sermones Lupi,” Anglo-Saxon England 21, 1992:
239–64.
Andy Orchard, “On Editing Wulfstan,” Early Medieval
English Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to
Donald G. Scragg, eds. Elaine Treharne and Susan
Rosser, 2002: 311–40.
Jonathan Wilcox, “The Dissemination of Wulfstan’s
Homilies: the Wulfstan Tradition in Eleventh-
Century Vernacular Preaching,” England in the
Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the 1990 Harlaxton
Symposium, ed. Carola Hicks, 1992: 199–217.
Jonathan Wilcox, “The Wolf on Shepherds: Wulfstan,
Bishops, and the Context of the Sermo Lupi ad
Anglos,” Old English Prose: Basic Readings, ed. Paul
E. Szarmach, 2000: 395–418.
Patrick Wormald, “Archbishop Wulfstan and the
Holiness of Society,” Anglo-Saxon History: Basic
Readings, ed. David A.E. Pelteret, 2000: 191–224.