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The Coventry Corpus Christi Pays, ed. Pamela M. King and Clifford Davidson, Early Drama, Art and Music Monograph Series 27 (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000). xii + 326 pp., 7 illustrations over 5 pp. ISBN 1-58044-055-X $35.00 (hard covers); 158044-056-8, $15.00(p/b).
This is an excellent new edition of the surviving Coventry Corpus Christi plays. It follows the principles of an EETS edition and incorporates a broad range of materials in an effort to surmount the difficulties presented by the fact that only two of the plays from the Coventry cycle survive, the Shearmen and Taylors' play and the Weavers' play respectively - and the former only in a nineteenth-century transcription. The volume...