Author: Garrett P J Epp

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 1580442846

The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.