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Oct 11, 2013 · INT. THE WITCH’S HOVEL – NIGHT DARKNESS. It is almost impossible to see. Passing through the shadows, extremely old and bent HANDS with long dirty talons briefly catch the firelight. They place SAMUEL upon the center of a crude table. Overwhelmed by the dark, he senses the danger. His delicate baby FINGERS
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The three plays were transcribed as separate manuscripts. Regional dialects and references to place names scattered throughout the plays suggest that all three originate from the East Midlands, particularly Norfolk and Suffolk. The Macro Manuscript’s copy of The Castle of Perseverance was transcribed by an unknown hand around 1440. The two later pl...
The Castle of Perseverance
References in The Castle of Perseverance to “crakows” (an early 15th-century shoe fashion with pointed toes) indicate that the play was written between 1400 and 1425, making it the earliest complete extant English morality play. Although it is the earliest play of the three, Castle, is the third play in the Macro manuscript, in folios 154-191. The play contains nearly 3,700 lines, with 38 extant leaves – two gatherings of 16 leaves and a third gathering of six leaves. Evidence of two missing...
Mankind
The manuscript is composed of thirteen leaves. The play was performed by groups of traveling players for a paying audience. The cast is considerably smaller than that of The Castle or Wisdom, requiring as few as six players to perform. The play has been noted for its low tone, bawdy humor, and the relatively colloquial language used throughout. The play is the first known play to mention money collection, so scholars have suggested that the tone of the play was meant to appeal to broader audi...
Wisdom
Also known as Mind, Will, and Understanding, two quires of twelve leaves each make up the manuscript.. While the play in its complete form is known only through the Macro Manuscript, fragments of the play are preserved in a Digby Manuscript at the Bodleian Library (MS Digby 133). Scholars disagree on the number of players required to perform the play, varying from over twenty to as few as twelve.
Detailed copy information may be found in Hamnet . Links to full-text "Bookreader" images of the Macro Manuscript (including the individual plays) may be found at the end of that record. Two scholars have produced recent Collationposts related to the Macro Manuscripts: 1. Kathleen Lynch, What do do about the Macro manuscripts?, October 20, 2015 1. ...
Richard Beadle, “Macro MS 5: A Historical Reconstruction,” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical SocietyXVI / 1 (2016): 35-77.Beadle, Richard and Piper, A.J. eds. "Monk Thomas Hyngham's hand in the Macro Manuscript," New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 199...Bennet, Jacob. "The 'Castle of Perseverance': Redactions, Place, and Date." Mediaeval studies, xxiv, p. 141-52. 1962.Bevington, David, ed. The Macro Plays: A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcription.New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972.Traditionally, scholars name only five extant English morality plays from the medieval period: The Pride of Life (late 14th century), The Castle of Perseverance (c.1425); Wisdom, (1460-63); Mankind (c.1470); Everyman (1510) (see King 235).
May 28, 2006 · Only five medieval English morality plays survive: The Pride of Life ( 85, pp. 90-105), The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind ( 83) and Everyman (86, 87), to give them their common titles, together constitute the entire corpus of an apparently influential native dramatic genre.
The surviving morality plays, or moral interludes, as they were generally known to their contemporaries, comprise a group of five texts from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries: The Pride of Life, The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, Wisdom, and Everyman.
The Somonyng of Everyman (The Summoning of Everyman), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play by an anonymous English author, printed circa 1530. It is possibly a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc (Everyman).
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