1. E. K. Chambers, The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, 1903, Vol. II, Appendix W, pp. 329–460.

2. For editions of the texts see Note on Books, p. 36.

3. Chambers, op. cit., pp. 403–6.

4. F. M. Salter, Mediaeval Drama in Chester, Toronto, 1955, pp. 40–42.

5. Details in Chambers, op. cit, p. 407.

6. F. M. Salter, ‘The “Trial and Flagellation”: a new manuscript’, in Chester Play Studies, ed. W. W. Greg (Malone Society Studies), 1935.

7. M. Eccles, ‘Ludus Coventriae: Lincoln or Norfolk?’, Medium Aevum 60, 1971, PP. 135–41.

8. H. Craig (ed.), Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays (1902), 1957, Early English Text Society.

9. N. Davis (ed.), Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments, 1970, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Text No. 1, p. lxii.

10. H. C. Gardiner, Mysteries’ End, New Haven, 1946.

11. L. Petit de Julleville, Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Française des Origines à 1900, Paris, 1896, tome II, p. 420. The French plays were not connected with craft guilds, and the arrangements for performance were different.

12. See Chambers, op. cit., pp. 321–3; V. A. Kolve, The Play Called Corpus Christi, 1966, pp. 33–100.

13. H. Craig, English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages, Oxford, 1955, pp. 171–8.

14. For a challenge to the accepted view that the York performance was processional, see A. H. Nelson, The Medieval English Stage, Chicago, 1974, pp. 15–81.

15. For a reconstruction of the pageants see G. Wickham, Early English Stages, 1300–1660, vol. 1, 1300–1576, 1959, pp. 172–3.