Study Guide on the York Noah Plays
Click here
for a link to the modern English prose version we will use as our text
for the class.
Please be sure to read Chapter 4 in Cohen and to browse through these
helpful websites:
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The official York, England site for the history and ongoing production
schedule of the York
Mystery Plays
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A fascinating page by Dennis
G. Jerz outlining the various theories about the staging of the York
plays and providing a Java applet that shows how the pageant wagons would
have progressed through the city of York according to various theories.
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A good essay on medieval drama by Kathleen
Campbell at the Luminarium website.
If you are particularly interested in medieval drama, you may also want
to study the text of the play in its original Middle English verse.
Both The
Building of the Ark and The
Flood are available through the Electronic Text Center at the University
of Virginia. You may also want to check a variety of additional medieval
drama resources available at the Luminarium
site.