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Wakefield/Towneley Cycle and the Wakefield Master (c. 1370–c. 1550)

Wakefield/Towneley Cycle and the Wakefield Master (c. 1370–c. 1550)

  1. Corpus Christi feast spreads in England

    Labels: Corpus Christi, England

  2. Wakefield develops a local Corpus Christi tradition

    Labels: Wakefield, Corpus Christi

  3. Some York pageants circulate into Wakefield’s repertoire

    Labels: York plays, Wakefield repertoire

  4. The Wakefield Master’s distinctive verse style emerges

    Labels: Wakefield Master, Wakefield stanza

  5. Comic realism peaks in The Second Shepherds’ Play

    Labels: Second Shepherds, Wakefield Master

  6. Towneley manuscript (HM 1) is copied in the 1400s

    Labels: Towneley manuscript, Huntington MS

  7. Reformation pressure builds against images and ‘superstition’

    Labels: Reformation England, Protestant censorship

  8. Corpus Christi is abolished in England

    Labels: Abolition of, Edward VI

  9. Wakefield performances continue but face Protestant limits

    Labels: Wakefield performances, Protestant limits

  10. Wakefield’s 1576 restrictions signal the cycle’s end

    Labels: 1576 restrictions, York authorities

  11. Towneley manuscript is sold at the 1814 Towneley auction

    Labels: Towneley auction, Towneley family

  12. Roxburghe Club publishes an early Towneley excerpt

    Labels: Roxburghe Club, Judicium publication

  13. The “Wakefield Master” label becomes a scholarly convention

    Labels: Wakefield Master, scholarly convention

  14. Huntington Library acquires HM 1 in 1922

    Labels: Huntington Library, HM 1