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Adam of Usk
allographic notation
Amorigy, Roger
Anderson, Benedict
Angers Apocalypse tapestries
Anne of Bohemia
Appleford, Amy
archive and repertoire, relationship between. See also Mumming of the Seven Philosophers
Ark of the Covenant
Ashley, Kathleen
Asteley, Joan
Astley, Sir John
Aston, Margaret
Austin, Thomas
authorship: author function
devysing
“made by”/“making”
Mumming of the Seven Philosophers
play-makers, playwrights, play-patchers
Shirley’s terms to describe Lydgate’s role
theater history and
women and
Bal, Mieke
“Balade de bone counseyle”
“Bale’s Chronicle”
Ball, John
“Ballade on a New Year’s Gift of an Eagle”
“Ballade on the Image of Our Lady”
ballades
combined ballade-letters. See also Henry VI’s coronation subtleties, Lydgate’s ballades to accompany
Baret, John
Barking abbey
Barron, Caroline M.
Bartholomew Fair
La Bataille du Roy
Battle of Roosbeek (tapestry)
Baude, Henri
Beauchamp, Richard, earl of Warwick
Beaufort, Edmund
Beaufort, Henry, bishop of Winchester
Beckwith, Sarah
Bedford, duchess of
Bedford, duke of
Benjamin, Walter
Benson, C. David
Beryn scribe
Bevington, David
biblical cycle plays
Billington, Sandra
bills: Disguising at Hertford as “bille”
Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry and secular public writing
labels Shirley applied to Lydgate’s verses
Lollard writing
Binski, Paul
Bishops Wood. See also Mumming at Bishopswood
Blacman, John
Blanchardyne and Eglantine (Caxton)
Blomefeld, Myles
Bodel, Jean
Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 59
Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16
Boffey, Julia
Boke of Nurture (Russell)
Bokenham, Osbern
Boleyn, Anne
Bolton, J. L.
Botiller, Alice
Boys, Lady Sibille
Brampton, Thomas
Brantley, Jessica
Brice, John
British Library MS Additional 16165
British Library MS Additional 29729
British Library MS Additional 34360
British Library MS Additional 37049
British Library MS Arundel 334
British Library MS Cotton Cleopatra C.iv.
British Library MS Cotton Julius B.i
British Library MS Cotton Julius B.ii
British Library MS Cotton Nero C.xi
British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D.8
British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A.xvi
British Library MS Cotton Vitellius F.ix
British Library MS Egerton 1995
British Library MS Guildhall 3313
British Library MS Harley 367
British Library MS Harley 565
British Library MS Harley 2251
British Library MS Harley 2255
British Library MS Harley 3775
British Library MS Harley 4016
British Library MS Harley 7333
British Library MS Lansdowne 285
British Library MS Lansdowne 699
Brown, Carlton
The Brut
Bühler, Curt F.
Bumke, Joachim
Burgh, Benedict
Burrow, John
Bury St. Edmunds, abbey of
Butterfield, Ardis
Bycorne and Chychevache
dating
French versions
instructions to the painter
intended representational form
location of wall hanging
Lydgate’s “devysing”
manuscript copies
possible patron
satiric story and misogynist tradition
Shirley’s copy and headnotes
verb “seying”
Bynum, Caroline Walker
Calot, Lawrence
Cambridge, University Library MS Hh.6.9.
Camille, Michael
Candlemas
Canning, Charlotte
Capgrave, John
Carpenter, John
Latin Letter documenting Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
Liber Albus
and Lydgate’s Danse macabre
Carpenter, Sarah
Carruthers, Mary
Carthusian Miscellany
Catherine of Valois, Queen: domestic arrangements and female-dominated household
Lydgate’s poems for
pageants and coronation of (1421)
public appearances/influence during early years of her son’s kingship
sexual involvements and remarriage dilemmas
struggle over accessory and ceremonial roles as late medieval queen
subtleties for
widowing of
Catherine of Valois, Lydgate’s holiday entertainments for
and Catherine’s position at court/role in the royal household
Catherine’s relegation to role of mythic ally of the dynasty
and Christmas season (1429–30)
dates
didactic goal of education of the king
Disguising at Hertford
and female power
and female support of male rulers
holiday gift giving rituals
in-house performers
legitimizing the dual monarchy
Mumming at Eltham
Mumming at Windsor
privileged space of the royal household
Shirley’s copies and headnotes
spectators/recipients/audiences
and women’s involvement in medieval poetry and performance
Cavallo, Adolpho
Caxton, William
Cerquiglini, Bernard
Chaganti, Seeta
chapel royal
Charles IV
Charles VI
Charles VII
Chaucer, Geoffrey: “Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale”
Canterbury Tales
“Clerk’s Tale”
and documentary culture
and English written canon
and French poetics
House of Fame
“Knight’s Tale”
and Lydgate’s mummings
“Monk’s Tale”
Parliament of Fowls
representations of London
scribe Pinkhurst
search for authorial autonomy
and Shirley’s anthologies
tradition of Lydgate’s cultivated dependence on
Trinity MS R.3.19 and
Troilus and Criseyde
and vernacular nationalism
“Wife of Bath’s Tale”
Chester cycle
Christine de Pisan
Christmas Feast of Fools
Christmas kings
Church of the Holy Innocents, cemetery of (Paris)
Church of the Holy Trinity in Long Melford, Clopton chantry chapel of
“The Churl and the Bird”
Clanchy, Michael
Clark, Robert L. A.
Clerkenwell/Skinners’ Well play
Clopper, Lawrence M.
and Lydgate’s Procession of Corpus Christi
on signs of performance in early manuscripts
Clopton, John
Clotilda, Saint
Cobham, Eleanor
Colart de Laon
Cole, Andrew
Coleman, Joyce
Coletti, Theresa
College of Arms MS Vincent 25 (I)
“Complaint for my Lady of Gloucester and Holland”
Confessio Amantis (Gower)
Connolly, Margaret
Cook, Sir Thomas
Cooper, Lisa
Cornburgh, Avery
Corpus Christi, feast of
and Clerkenwell/Skinners’ Well play
and London’s merchant oligarchy
and the 1381 uprising
and violence against foreigners. See also Procession of Corpus Christi
Coster, John
courtly makying
Courtois d’Arras
Coventry pageants
Crane, Susan
“Cristes Passioun”
Croo, Robert
Croxton Play of the Sacrament
Curteys, St. Edmund, vita of
Curteys, William, abbot of Bury
custos (expositor)
Dame Sirith
Dance of Death murals
Danse macabre (or Daunce of Poulys)
Carpenter and
commissioned for Pardon Churchyard at St. Paul’s
surviving verse manuscripts
A version/B version
viewers’ participatory interaction with
Davenport, John
Davis, Whitney
Davy, Oliver
de la Halle, Adam
de la Pole, William, earl of Suffolk
de Worde, Wynkyn
Deansley, Margaret
“Debate of the Horse, Goose, and Sheep”
Denny-Brown, Andrea
Derrida, Jacques
Despenser Retable
devysing
Digby plays
Dillon, Janette
Dinshaw, Carolyn
Disguising at Hertford
as “bille”
dating
“devysed” by Lydgate
education of the king
female power/tyranny
gender roles and women’s complaints
and Hertford castle
marginal glosses implying presence of actors
marital relations
Shirley’s headnote
symbolic invasion of royal household by rustics/peasants
Disguising at London
address of audience as “you”
Christmas season
Dame Fortune and the four cardinal virtues
as a “devyse”
gift giving/gift of virtue and the household
good governance theme
literary poetics and allusions
and parliament’s opening
Shirley on
Shirley’s marginal glosses
stage performance hints
Dodson, Joseph
“The Dolerous Pyte of Crystes Passioun”
Doyle, A. I.
dual monarchy, legitimacy of Lancastrian
Duffy, Eamon
Duke of Northumberland’s Canterbury Tales
Durham, Lofton
Durham Cathedral
Dymmock, Sir Philip
Early English Text Society
Ebesham, William
Ebin, Lois
École des Chartres
Edward, Agnes, wife or widow of Thomas Edward
Edward III
Edward IV
Edward of Norwich, duke of York
Edwards, A. S. G.
Elizabeth of York
Ellesmere 26.A.13
English College MS Rome 1306
English literary history
excluded Middle English texts
excluded scriptless performances and missing play-scripts
formation of written canon
marginalization of medieval drama within
recent archival projects and early theater studies
revisionist scholarship on Lydgate’s contributions
uncovering surviving play-texts. See also play scripts, medieval; vernacular English writing, late medieval
Epiphany, Feast of
“Epistle to Sibille”
Epstein, Robert
Erler, Mary
Estfeld, William, mayor of London
Eucharist: and Henry VI’s coronation subtleties
and Procession of Corpus Christi
Wycliffite challenge to sacrament of
Evans, Ruth
Fabyan’s Chronycle
Fall of Princes
“The Fifteen Joyes of Oure Lady”
“The Fifteen Joys and Sorrows of Mary”
Fisher, John
Fishmongers
FitzStephen, William
Fleming, Juliet
Fletcher, Bradford
Floyd, Jennifer
folk dramas
foreign residents/alien populations in late medieval London
citizenship and enfranchisement privileges
as targets of nativist violence and antiforeigner sentiments
Fortune playhouse
Foucault, Michel
Fouquet, Jean
Fredell, Joel
French poetics: Chaucer
Lydgate’s mummings and disguisings for Londoners
Lydgate’s verses for Henry VI’s coronation subtleties
Shirley’s copies of Lydgate’s performance pieces
Froissart, Jean, Chronicles
Fumerton, Patricia
Furnivall, J.
Galloway, Andrew
Ganim, John M.
Gayk, Shannon
Geffrey, Richard
genre and media mixing: and Henry VI’s coronation subtleties
Lydgate’s mummings and disguisings for Londoners
Lydgate’s poems for visual display
Lydgate’s Procession of Corpus Christi
and pageants
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britannorum
Gertsman, Elina
Gesta Edwardi III
Giancarlo, Matthew
Gibson, Gail McMurray
gift giving and receiving: Disguising at London
holidays and the royal household
Lydgate’s mummings and disguisings for Londoners
Mumming at Bishopswood
Mumming at Eltham
Mumming for the Goldsmiths
Mumming for the Mercers
and mutual/reciprocal obligations
outsiders bearing gifts
Given-Wilson, Chris
Gladman, John
glossing in medieval manuscripts
and process of textualizing
Procession of Corpus Christi and devotional/instructional glossing
Shirley’s marginal glosses
and visual representations
Gloucester, duke of. See Humphrey, duke of Gloucester
Goldberg, Jeremy
Goldsmiths’ Company
Goodman, Nelson
Goulding, Charles Benjamin
Gower, John
The Great Chronicle of London
Green, Richard
Greenfield, Peter
Greg, W. W.
Gregory, William
“Gregory’s Chronicle”
“Grete Boke”
Griffiths, Ralph
Grocers
guild system and London’s companies: aliens/foreign merchants in
and Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
mummings for
parish guilds. See also Goldsmiths’ Company; Mercers’ Company
Guy of Warwick
Hamburger, Jeffrey
Hammond, Eleanor
Hammond scribe
Hanna, Ralph, III
Harris, Max
Hatfield House Cecil Papers MS 281
Haverbeke, Gerard
Henry IV: championing English vernacular and national identity
Christmas holiday and royal decisions
and Clerkenwell/Skinners’ Well play
coronation banquet (1399)
wedding
Henry V
championing English vernacular and national identity
and 1413 coronation entry
and 1415 entry/welcome after Agincourt
inventory of wall tapestries
and Lydgate’s Disguising at London
marriage to Catherine
Henry VI: as child-king
French coronation (1431)
and household revels/entertainments
and Mumming of the Seven Philosophers. See also Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
Henry VI’s coronation ceremony (1429)
Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
Carpenter’s Latin Letter and version
chroniclers’ repertoire of stylistic devices to capture live performance on the page
convention of the custos (expositor)
economic activity
eyewitness reports
intersection of performance and writing
Latin mottos
Latin Vulgate scripture
manuscript inscription
mayor’s greeting/speech
messianic qualities of the ideal king
pageantry inscription
spatial act of inscription
temporal act of inscription
and vernacular writing. See also Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry (pageants and processional route); Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London (Lydgate)
Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry (pageants and processional route)
first pageant (London Bridge and giant with a sword)
second pageant (tower at London drawbridge and three empresses Nature, Grace, and Fortune)
third pageant (tabernacle at Cornhill for Dame Sapience and the seven sciences)
fourth pageant (conduit in Cornhill with child-king surrounded by Mercy, Truth, and Clemency)
fifth pageant (conduit in Cheapside and Wells of Paradise)
sixth pageant (Jesse tree and cross in Cheapside)
final pageant (conduit in St. Paul’s)
contrived imaginative representations
London’s political ties and civic structure
Lydgate’s instructional glossing
rhythms of the processional walk
spatial act of inscription
as “spatial practice”
symbolic violence and disunity
temporal act of inscription
Henry VI’s coronation ceremony (1429)
duration of
the long day of events
Lydgate’s “Ballade” and “Roundel”
Mayor Estfeld’s attendance
planning for
and rituals of mass
Westminster ceremony. See also Henry VI’s coronation subtleties, Lydgate’s ballades to accompany
Henry VI’s coronation subtleties, Lydgate’s ballades to accompany
first ballade (Sts. Edward and Louis with Henry VI between)
second ballade (Henry VI kneeling before Sigismund and Henry V)
third ballade (Virgin with child, holding a crown, flanked by Sts. George and Denis)
audience/spectators
and the coronation feast
evidence of having been read aloud
French poetics
genre (media) mixing
lack of authorial attribution
and legitimacy of the dual monarchy
and Lollard heresies
London chronicle manuscripts
possible recycling for other uses
possible urban co-opting of the original performances
and religious symbols for political purposes
and the subtleties (food)
surviving manuscript copies
themes/subject matter and Lancastrian rule. See also subtleties
Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London (Lydgate)
and aliens/foreigners
Carpenter’s Latin recast into English speech
and Carpenter’s letter
commissioning of
depictions of London
and London chronicles
the mayor’s greeting/speech
muted messianic theme and biblical imagery
and Nolan’s analysis of genre (media)
the shift to civic perspective
as souvenir program
structure of the poem (the day’s events)
survival in official records
as transcript/transcription
and the vernacular (vernacular reinscription)
visual imagery
Henslowe, Philip
Herbert, William
Hertford castle. See also Disguising at Hertford
Hildegard of Bingen
Hoccleve, Thomas
Holford, William
holidays. See Catherine of Valois, Lydgate’s holiday entertainments for; gift giving and receiving; Mumming of the Seven Philosophers
Holsinger, Bruce
Horn, Andrew
Horrox, Rosemary
How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
How the Wise Man Taught His Son
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Humphrey, duke of Gloucester
the 1432 royal entry
marriage
and the young king Henry VI
The Hunt of the Frail Stag (tapestry)
Hus, Jan
Hyngham of Bury St. Edmunds
“The Image of our Lady”
Isabeau of Bavaria
Isabella, third wife of the earl of Warwick
Isabella of Valois
Jacob, E. F.
Jacqueline of Hainault
James I of Scotland
Jauss, Hans-Robert
Jean, Duc de Berry
Jerusalem, London as new
Jews
Joan of Arc
Joan of Navarre
Joanna of Castile
John the Baptist pageant at Temple Bar (1392)
Johnston, Alexandra
Jousts of St. Denis (tapestry)
Julian of Norwich
Justice, Steven
Kamerick, Kathleen
Kastan, David Scott
Katherine of Sutton
Kemp, John, archbishop of York
Kempe, Margery
Kightly, Charles
Kingsford, Charles
Kipling, Gordon
on disguisings performed by professional players
on Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
and labels Shirley applied to Lydgate’s verses
on Lydgate’s ballades for Henry VI’s coronation banquet
on royal entries
on Shirley’s omission of performance details
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
Knight, Alan
Knights Hospitaller
Korda, Natasha
LaCapra, Dominick
Lambeth Palace Library MS 12
Lambeth Palace Library MS 306
Lancashire, Anne
Lancashire, Ian
Langley, Thomas, bishop of Durham
Latimer, Lord
Lawton, David
Lefebvre, Henri
Legend of St. George
dating
image of poet-narrator figure (“þee poete first declareþe”)
Lydgate’s devysing
Lydgate’s role in creation
Lydgate’s verses accompanying the “steyned hall”
references to reading and writing
references to vision/spectatorship
Shirley’s headnote
surviving traces
Legend of St. Giles
Legenda Aurea
Lerer, Seth
Lester, G. A.
letter-writing
ars dictaminis
combined ballade-letters
Libelle of English Polycye
Liber Albus
Life of Our Lady
Life of Saint Géry
Lille manuscript
Lindenbaum, Sheila
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval England
Lollardy: bills
the 1413 plot
the 1431 uprising
and Henry VI’s coronation subtleties
writings
Lombard, Peter
London: and Anderson’s “imagined communities”
foreign populations and alien merchants
Lydgate’s depictions as prestigious cosmopolis
Lydgate’s poem for Henry VI’s 1432 entry
and Lydgate’s vernacular cosmopolitanism
merchant oligarchy
as new Jerusalem/new Troy
openness/porousness
public culture and religious performances
sheriffs
spatial inscription and Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
street pageantry. See also guild system and London’s companies; Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry (pageants and processional route)
London chronicles: “commonplace books”
and Lydgate’s ballades to accompany Henry VI’s coronation subtleties
and Lydgate’s poem for Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
manuscripts
Longleat House MS Longleat
Lowe, John
Lübeck, carnival play in
Lumiansky, R. M.
Lupton, Julia
Lydgate, John
absence from accounts of early performance and theater history
case for authorship of Mumming of the Seven Philosophers
and Chaucer
efforts on behalf of the Lancastrian royal household
in France
language and style
popularity
practice of not having kept portfolio of verses
relationship with Shirley
revisionist scholarship on contributions to English literary history
themes and preoccupations
works commissioned by women. See also Shirley’s copies of Lydgate’s performance pieces
MacCracken, Henry Noble
Macro plays
Maddern, Philippa
“made by”/“making”
Maidstone, Richard
Manley, Lawrence
Marchant, Guyot
Margaret, Lady Talbot (later Countess of Shrewsbury)
Margaret of Anjou
Marks, Richard
Marshall, Anne
Mary Magdalene (Digby play)
materiality of texts: Dagenais on medieval manuscripts
and revisionist scholarship on Lydgate’s contributions to English literary history
theater history and
May Day. See also Mumming at Bishopswood
McKenna, J. W.
McLaren, Mary-Rose
McLuhan, Marshall
medieval studies (as discipline)
Memling, Hans
Mercers’ Company
Meslay-le-Grenet, Dance of Death mural at
messianic themes and Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
Meyer-Lee, Robert
Middleton, Anne
Middleton, William
Mills, David
Minnis, Alistair
miracle plays
“mirror for princes” genre
misogynist traditions. See also Bycorne and Chychevache
Monumenta series
Mooney, Linne
morality plays
More, Thomas
Mortimer, Nigel
Morton, John, bishop of Ely
Multon, John
mumming, practice of
Mumming at Bishopswood
audiences
as ballade
classical allusions
collage effect
dating
and French performances
honorifics and question of addressee
and London sheriffs
May Day celebration of springtime
music
outsiders bearing gifts
the pursuivant (messenger) and herald
Shirley copy and headnotes
Mumming at Eltham
and Catherine’s position at court/role in the royal household
dating
final stanza
first seven stanzas directed at Henry
holiday gift-giving rituals and the royal household
in-house performers (the chapel royal)
and the privileged space of the royal household
Shirley’s headnote
site of the performance
stanzas directed to Catherine
twelve rhyme-royal stanzas introducing gods of antiquity offering gifts
Mumming at Windsor
attempt to legitimize the dual monarchy
and Catherine’s relegation to new role (as mythic ally of the Lancastrian dynasty)
dating (Christmas season of 1429–30)
and female support of male rulers
fourteen rhyme-royal stanzas
Shirley’s copy and headnote
site of performance (Windsor Castle)
story of St. Clotilda, Clovis, and the fleur-de-lis
Mumming for the Goldsmiths
Ark of Covenant
as ballade-like letter
Candlemas occasion
classical allusions
dating
gift giving and receiving
the herald named Fortune
and London’s alien merchants and tradesmen
mixed liturgical and other references
and pamphleting culture
Shirley’s copy and headnote
symbols of good governance
and vernacular forms
as writ
Mumming for the Mercers
as ballade-like letter
classical and literary allusions
and French poetics
gift giving and receiving
image of prestigious London
Jupiter’s herald and journey from Jerusalem to London
and liturgical dramas
and Mayor Estfeld
and the Mercers’ Company
political-nationalist context (alien merchants and tradesmen)
the pursuivant
Shirley copies
Shirley glosses
Twelfth Night/Feast of the Epiphany occasion
Mumming of the Seven Philosophers
advice to the young king Henry VI
case for Lydgate’s authorship
Christmas king tradition and winter “mock king” festivities
Christmas season (1429–30)
initials in the manuscript
Lydgate’s concerns and preoccupations
Lydgate’s language and style (mixed evidence)
note at top of folio 1r
performance contexts
purchasers and readers
resemblances to other Lydgate pieces
Scribe A’s possible use of a Shirley exemplar
Senek figure
and Shirley circle copyists and readers
Trinity MS R.3.19 and
twelve-stanza moralistic poem with names and speeches for seven philosophers and Nuncius
mummings and disguisings for Londoners, Lydgate’s
audiences
and Chaucer
classical and literary allusions
French poetics
genre issues
gift giving/receiving
good governance themes
in-house performance venues
Latin nouns and adjectives
literary aesthetics
London as prestigious cosmopolis
and London sheriffs
and London’s companies (guilds)
and London’s porousness
Lydgate’s ornate style
and mayor Estfeld
and the Mercers’ Company
music
political-nationalist contexts (alien merchants and tradesmen)
as “public” texts
pursuivants
Shirley glosses
Shirley’s copies and headnotes
theater scholars’ problem of classifying
vernacular cosmopolitanism
vernacular English and linguistic nationalism
vernacular writing forms. See also Disguising at London; Mumming at Bishopswood; Mumming for the Goldsmiths; Mumming for the Mercers
mystery plays
Nagy, Gregory
The Newe Cronycles of England and of France
Nichols, Stephen
Nine Worthies (tapestry in the Cloisters, New York)
Nolan, Maura
on Lydgate’s Disguising at Hertford
on Lydgate’s Disguising at London
on Lydgate’s poem for Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
and Lydgate’s “public” mummings and disguisings
Normington, Katie
Norton-Smith, John
Norwich Cathedral
N-Town plays
Nuttall, Jenni
Oldcastle, John
Oliver, Clementine
“On De Profundis”
Ong, Walter
orature
Order of the Garter
Orewell, John
Osberg, Richard H.
Pageant of Knowledge
pageants, religious: and feast of Corpus Christi in London
and overlapping representational forms that involved visual display
and parish churches
street pageantry. See also Procession of Corpus Christi
pageants of Henry VI’s royal entry. See also Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry (pageants and processional route)
Palm Sunday Prophets
Palmer, Barbara
pamphleteering/pamphleting culture
Pardon Churchyard at St. Paul’s Cathedral
Parkes, Malcolm
parliament, late medieval: and coronation of Henry VI
and growing prestige of the vernacular
and Lydgate’s Disguising at London
Westminster location
and xenophobia
passion plays
Paston, Sir John
Patterson, Lee
Pearsall, Derek
Pecock, Reginald
performance, medieval: Bal’s notion of “cotext”/“pre-text”
and collaboration
and courtly identity making
gap between archive and repertoire
London’s religious pageants and
Lydgate’s poems for visual display
performance and written inscription containing/shaping the possibility of the other
performative looking/reading
references in public records
revised assumptions of archival projects
and revisionist scholarship on Lydgate
and Shirley’s labels applied to Lydgate’s verses
spectatorship and notions of public poetry
and subtleties
theatrical arts of disguise and deception
uncovering surviving play-texts
and the visual
what constitutes “drama” in late medieval England
women’s involvement. See also English literary history; play scripts, medieval; theater history
Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
Philippa of Hainault
Pierpont Morgan Library MS 775
Piers Plowman
Pilet, Jacquemart
Pilgrimage of Life
Pinkhurst, Adam
play scripts, medieval
authorship
existing corpus
manuscript contexts
possible survival within non-performance texts
scribal techniques borrowed from other sources
scribal tendency to convert into literary (poetic) texts
transcription methods and recording aural and gestural features
uncovering surviving play-texts
and visual representation
women and. See also performance, medieval
Plumley, Yolanda
Pope’s Head Tavern, 1466 wager at
Postlewait, Thomas
“A Prayer for King, Queen, and People”
Prick of Conscience
Priory of St. Mary Overy
Procession of Corpus Christi
absence of details of the physical procession
addressed to community of readers
eucharistic theology
first-person pronouns and verbal intimacy
glossing of the biblical processional figures
glossing on sacramental celebration of the feast
and London’s religious performances
mixing of symbolic and material representations
as “ordenaunce of a precessyoun”
play on concept of the processional “figure”
possible commissioning of
Shirley’s copies and headnotes
and Skinners’ fraternity
structure of verses
surviving manuscripts and possible circulation. See also Corpus Christi, feast of
Promptorium Parvulorum
Puttenham, George, The Arte of English Poesie
Pynson, Richard
Queen Catherine. See Catherine of Valois, Queen; Catherine of Valois, Lydgate’s holiday entertainments for
“Quis dabit?”
Rastell, William
reading, medieval: conflation of reading and seeing (looking)
Legend of St. George and references to
Lollard emphasis on lay literacy
and metaphor of sight
and oral tradition
performative reading practices
“reading” tapestry stories
Shirley’s adaptation of live performances for private reading
theater history’s attention to contest between performance and
and verb conceyveth
and versatility of media
women and
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
Reed, Isaac
Reed, Marcia
religion: Henry VI’s coronation feast and rituals of mass
Henry VI’s coronation subtleties and linking of church and crown
importance of religious texts to medieval literary history
liturgical dramas and Lydgate’s mummings and disguisings
Lydgate’s Procession of Corpus Christi
messianic themes and Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
Passion poems, icons, and visionary devotional texts
religious performances and London’s public culture
and spectators’ participatory interaction with works. See also Corpus Christi, feast of; Eucharist
Renoir, Alain
Reynes, Robert
Ricardian public poetry
Richard II
entry of (1377)
honorifics during reign of
mumming for (1377)
ritual holiday gift giving
the 1392 reconciliation and pageants for
Riddy, Felicity
Robbins, Rossell Hope
Rolls Series
Roman de la Rose
Romance of Jourdain de Blaye, tapestries of
Rothschild Canticles
Rubin, Miri
Russell, John
Sacks, David Harris
Scanlon, Larry
Scase, Wendy
Scattergood, V. J.
Schirmer, Walter
Scogan, Henry
Scott, John
scribes: Beryn scribe
Chaucer’s scribe Pinkhurst
collaboration with writers
Hammond scribe
Mumming of the Seven Philosophers and possible use a Shirley exemplar
play-writing techniques
tendency to convert theatrical texts into literary (poetic). See also Shirley’s copies of Lydgate’s performance pieces
Secreta Secretorum
Seneca
Serpent of Division
Sharp, Jack
Sheingorn, Pamela
sheriffs of London
Shirley, John
and Beauchamp household
characteristic spellings and use of language
connections to Vale
and mercers
and Mumming of the Seven Philosophers
relationship with Lydgate
residence in close of St. Bartholomew’s
and Shirley circle of copyists and readers
and Stow. See also Shirley’s copies of Lydgate’s performance pieces
Shirley’s copies of Lydgate’s performance pieces
anthologies
and French poetics
labels applied to Lydgate’s verses
Lydgate’s ballade-letters
as Lydgate’s copyist
and Lydgate’s holiday entertainments for Catherine
Lydgate’s mummings and disguisings
Lydgate’s poems for visual display
marginal glosses
omitting of dramatic markers/details of original performances
possible interest in promoting Lydgate
preservation and dissemination of
Procession of Corpus Christi
reshaping live performances into written poems
rubrics and headnotes describing performance contexts
scholarly debates over Shirley’s scribal activities
terms to describe Lydgate’s authorial role. See also Bodleian Library MS Ashmole
British Library MS Additional 16165
Trinity College Library MS R.3.20
Siege of Thebes
Sigismund, Emperor
Simpson, James
situatedness (literary)
Skelton, John
Skinners’ fraternity. See also Procession of Corpus Christi
Société des anciens textes français
Society of Antiquaries
“Sodein Fal of Princes”
Somerset, John
South English Legendary
spectatorship, medieval: and Henry VI’s coronation subtleties
and Lydgate’s holiday entertainments for Catherine
and Lydgate’s poems for visual display
and participatory interactions with tapestries
women and
St. Albans manuscript
St. Apollonia, Fouquet’s miniature of martyrdom of
St. Bartholomew’s, priory of
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Shirley’s residence in close of
St. Botolph’s Aldgate, fraternity at
St. Dunstan’s Day feast
St. Eloi, fraternity of
St. George story. See also Legend of St. George
St. George’s feast for the Emperor Sigismund (1416)
St. John, priory of
St. John Zachary, parish of
St. John’s College MS 57
St. Mary Aldermanbury, church of
St. Paul’s Cathedral: feast of Corpus Christi at
and final pageant of Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
Pardon Churchyard and Lydgate’s Danse macabre
St. Thomas of Acre, church of
Stanbury, Sarah
Statutes of the Realm
Steiner, Emily
Stern, Tiffany
Stevens, Martin
Stevenson, Katie
Steynour, John
Stondon, William
The Story of the Trojan War (tapestry)
Stow, John
and audience for Mumming at Bishopswood
on the Clerkenwell/Skinners’ Well play
on Lydgate’s Danse macabre at St. Paul’s Cathedral
note on Bycorne and Chychevache
note on Legend of St. George
and Shirley
and Shirley’s copies of Mumming at Bishopswood
and Shirley’s headnote for Mumming for the Goldsmiths
Survey of London
and Trinity MS R.3.19
and Vale
Strohm, Paul
Stubbes, Estelle
subtleties
common uses at ceremonial occasions
defined
descriptions in extant documents
and gastro-aesthetics of the ritualized banquet
and Henry VI’s coronation feast
performative nature of
and processes of courtly identity making
social reach
and theatrical arts of disguise and deception. See also Henry VI’s coronation subtleties, Lydgate’s ballades to accompany
Sutton, Anne
Symes, Carol
tapestries (woven wall hangings)
and features of medieval drama
how images were commissioned
how the stories were “read”
and mystery plays
and painted (“stained”) wall hangings
spectators’ participatory interactions with
and written verse inscriptions. See also Legend of St. George; visual display, Lydgate’s poems for
Taylor, Diana
Téméraire, Charles de
Temple of Glas
Testament
and Clopton chantry chapel
verses as images
viewers’ participatory interaction with
“That now is Hay some-tyme was Grase”
theater history
attention to Middle English writings
attributions of authorship
as challenge to literary history
and contest between writing and speaking (reading and performance)
and development of vernacular literature
gap between archive and repertoire
and materiality of texts
original practices movement
recent archival projects
and religious texts
scholarly neglect of Lydgate’s performance pieces
treated as act of salvage. See also performance, medieval; play scripts, medieval
Thomas, duke of Gloucester
Thomas à Becket
Thomas of Elmham
Thorney, Roger
Thrupp, Sylvia
Towneley manuscript
Trapp, J. B.
Travaill players
“Treatise for Lavenders”
Treaty of Troyes
Très riches heures (woven wall hanging)
Trevisa, John
Trinity College Library MS 509
Trinity College Library MS O.9.1
Trinity College Library MS R.3.19: audience of purchasers and readers
Bycorne and Chychevache
and Chaucer canon
Fables
and the Hammond scribe
and Mumming of the Seven Philosophers
a possible Shirley exemplar
Scribe A
Scribe B
and Shirley circle of copyists
and Stow
the thirteen booklets and foliation
Trinity College Library MS R.3.20
Bycorne and Chychevache
Disguising at Hertford
French poetics
Legend of St. George
Mumming at Windsor
Mumming for the Goldsmiths
Procession of Corpus Christi
Shirley’s copies of Lydgate’s mummings
Trinity College Library MS R.3.21
Troy, London as new
Troy Book
Tudor, Owen
Twelfth Night
Twycross, Meg
Tynemouth’s Historia aurea
Vale, John
Vale, Malcolm
vernacular cosmopolitanism
vernacular English writing, late medieval
ballades
broadsides, bills, libels, and protest writing
combined ballade-letters
“documentary poetics” and documentary culture
and emerging literary culture
and Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
letters/letter-writing
Lydgate and vernacular humanism
Lydgate’s London and vernacular cosmopolitanism
Mumming for the Goldsmiths
Mumming for the Mercers
pamphleteering
performance and written inscription containing/shaping the possibility of the other
politics and linguistic nationalism
theater history’s call for rethinking development
writs
vernacular humanism
Visser-Fuchs, Livia
visual display, Lydgate’s poems for
Bycorne and Chychevache
Danse macabre (or Daunce of Poulys)
instructions to painters
Legend of St. George
Lydgate’s alertness to power of visual representation
and Lydgate’s devysing
questions about intended representational forms
“Quis dabit?” stanzas
references to reading, writing, and interpretation
references to vision/spectatorship
religious and secular poems intended to be read along with visual images
Shirley’s headnotes
spectators’ participatory interaction with
Testament
texts linked to performance
verb conceyveth
verses as images (text-as-image/decoration)
woven tapestries and “stained” wall hangings
visual display, medieval representational forms involving
and Bal’s notion of “cotext”/“pre-text”
conflation of reading and seeing (looking)
metaphor of sight
and Pecock’s view of virtues of pictorial representation
performance and relationship between visual and dramatic texts
performative looking
spectators’ participatory interactions with
spectatorship and notions of public poetry
and term pageant
woven tapestries and wall hangings. See also visual display, Lydgate’s poems for
Wachter, Raymond
Wakefield
wall paintings and “stained” hangings. See also tapestries (woven wall hangings); visual display, Lydgate’s poems for
Watson, Nicholas
Watts, John L.
Weigert, Laura
Weiss, Allen S.
Welles, John, mayor of London. See also Henry VI’s 1432 royal entry
Wenzel, Siegfried
Westfall, Suzanne
Westminster
Whittington, Richard
Wickham, Glynne
Wilmer, George
women, medieval: as authors
Bycorne and Chychevache and misogynist tradition
Catherine’s accessory and ceremonial roles as late medieval queen
Catherine’s royal household
engaged spectatorship
female power and tyranny
Hertford castle’s association with female power
involvement in medieval poetry and performance
Lydgate’s holiday entertainments for Catherine
as patrons
as performers in plays
portrayals of. See also Catherine of Valois, Lydgate’s holiday entertainments for
Woodville, Elizabeth
Worcester, William
writs
Wycliffites
York Register
Young, Karl, Drama of the Medieval Church
Zeeman, Nicolette