The bibliography of the mystery plays is a vast subject. The most comprehensive attempt is that by Stratman (revised in 1972). He tries to cover the very large amount of unpublished material on the plays, much of it being in the U.S.A. I give below a list of the works which have been of most help to me in preparing this selection. The place of publication is London, unless otherwise specified.
Chester
British Museum (B.M.) Additional MS 10,305.
B. M. Harley MS 2124 (generally regarded as the best text).
B. M. Harley MS 2013.
Bodley MS 175.
Devonshire MS.
The Chester Plays, ed. H. Diemling and Dr Matthews, Early English Text Society (E.E.T.S.) (2 vols.), e.s. 62, 1892, and e.s. 115, 1916.
The Chester Mystery Cycle, a facsimile of Bodley MS 175, ed. R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills, Leeds, 1973.
The Chester Mystery Cycle, ed. R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills, E.E.T.S., s.s. 3, 1974.
Ludus Coventriae
B. M. Cotton MS Vespasian D viii.
Ludus Coventriae, or The Plaie Called Corpus Christi, ed. K. S. Block, E.E.T.S., e.s. 120, 1922.
The Corpus Christi Play of the Middle Ages, ed. R. T. Davies, 1972.
Towneley
Huntington Library MS HM1.
The Towneley Plays, ed. G. England and A. W. Pollard, E.E.T.S., e.s. 71, 1897.
The Wakefield Pageants in the Towneley Cycle, ed. A. C. Cawley, Manchester, 1958.
York
B. M. Additional MS 35,290.
The York Plays, ed. L. Toulmin Smith, Oxford, 1885 (repr. 1963).
Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas, ed. J. Q. Adams, Boston, 1924.
Everyman and Mediaeval Miracle Plays, ed. A. C. Cawley, 1956.
Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, ed. H. Craig, E.E.T.S., e.s. 87 (1902), 1957.
Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments, ed. N. Davis, E.E.T.S., s.s.1, 1970 (contains the Shrewsbury Fragments, Norwich Grocers’ Play of the Creation, Newcastle Play of Noah, Northampton and Brome Plays of Abraham).
Le Mistère du Viel Testament, ed. J. de Rothschild, Société des Anciens Textes Français (6 vols.), Paris, 1878.
The Macro Plays, ed. M. Eccles, E.E.T.S. 262, 1969.
Ancient Mysteries Described, W. Hone, 1823.
Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama, ed. J. M. Manly (2 vols.), Boston, 1897 (repr. London, 1967).
The Ancient Cornish Drama, ed. with translation, E. Norris, Oxford, 1859.
Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose, ed. K. Sisam, Oxford, 1921.
Ten Miracle Plays, ed. R. G. Thomas, 1966.
M. D. Anderson, Drama and Imagery in English Mediaeval Churches, Cambridge, 1963.
R. Axton, European Drama of the Early Middle Ages, 1974.
E. K. Chambers, The Mediaeval Stage (2 vols.), Oxford, 1903.
English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages, Oxford, 1945.
G. Cohen, Le Théâtre en France au Moyen Age (2 vols.), Paris, 1928.
H. Craig, English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages, Oxford, 1955.
N. Denny (ed.), Mediaeval Drama (Stratford-upon-Avon Studies 16), 1973.
M. Eccles, ‘Ludus Coventriae: Lincoln or Norfolk?’, Medium Aevum 60, 1971, pp. 135–41.
G. Frank, The Mediaeval French Drama, Oxford, 1954.
‘On the Relation of the York and Towneley Plays’, PMLA 44, 1929, pp. 313–19.
H. C. Gardiner, Mysteries’ End, New Haven, 1946.
J. Gardner, ‘Theme and Irony in the Wakefield Mactatio Abel’, PMLA 80, 1965, pp. 515–21.
W. W. Greg, ‘Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles’, Library 5, 1914 (four parts).
Chester Play Studies, Malone Society, 1935.
A. Harbage, Annals of English Drama, 975–1700, revised by S. Schoenbaum, 1962 (Supplements 1966 and 1970).
O. B. Hardison, Jr, Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages, Baltimore, 1965.
S. J. Kahrl, Traditions of Medieval English Drama, 1974.
A. M. Kinghorn, Mediaeval Drama, 1968.
V. A. Kolve, The Play Called Corpus Christi, 1966.
M. C. Lyle, The Original Identity of the York and Towneley Cycles, Minneapolis, 1919.
W. F. McNeir, ‘The Corpus Christi Plays as Dramatic Art’, Studies in Philology 48, 1951, pp. 601–28.
A. H. Nelson, The Mediaeval English Stage, Chicago, 1974.
R. E. Parker, ‘The Reputation of Herod in Early English Literature’, Speculum 8, 1933, pp. 59–67.
L. Petit de Julleville, Les Mystères (2 vols.), Paris, 1880.
E. Prosser, Drama and Religion in the English Mystery Plays, Stanford, 1961.
J. S. Purvis, From Minster to Market Place, York, 1969.
C. Ricks (ed.), English Drama to 1710, 1971.
J. W. Robinson, ‘The Art of the York Realist’, Modern Philology 60, 1963, pp. 241–51.
A. P. Rossiter, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans, 1950.
F. M. Salter, Mediaeval Drama in Chester, Toronto, 1955, New York, 1968.
‘The Banns of the Chester Plays’, Review of English Studies 15, 1939, PP. 432–57; 16, pp. 1–17, 137–48.
J. B. Severs, ‘The Relationship between the Brome and Chester Plays of Abraham and Isaac’, Modern Philology 42, 1945, pp. 137–51.
T. Sharp, Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry, Coventry, 1825.
R. Southern, The Staging of Plays before Shakespeare, 1973.
J. Speirs, ‘The Towneley Shepherds’ Plays’, in The Age of Chaucer, ed. B. Ford (Penguin Books), 1954.
C. J. Stratman, A Bibliography of Mediaeval Drama, Berkeley, 1954. Second edition 1972.
E. L. Swenson, An Enquiry into the Composition and Structure of ‘Ludus
Coventriae’, Minneapolis, 1914.
J. H. Taylor and A. H. Nelson (eds.), Mediaeval English Drama, Chicago, 1972.
M. P. Tilley, A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Ann Arbor, 1950.
J. R. Wallis, ‘The Miracle Play of Crucifixio Christi in the York Cycle’, Modern Language Review 12, 1917; pp. 494–5.
H. A. Watt, ‘The Dramatic Unity of the Secunda Pastorum’, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown, New York, 1940.
G. Wickham, Early English Stages (2 vols.), 1959–62.
The Medieval Theatre, 1974.
A. Williams, The Characterization of Pilate in the Towneley Plays, East Lansing, 1950.
R. H. Wilson, ‘The Stanzaic Life of Christ and the Chester Plays’, Studies in Philology 28, 1931, pp. 413–32.
R. Woolf, The English Mystery Plays, 1972.
K. Young, The Drama of the Mediaeval Church (2 vols.), Oxford, 1933.