Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plans
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Excerpt from Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plans: 1. The Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, Re-Edited From the Edition of Thomas Sharp, 1825, And 2. The Weavers' Pageant, Re-Edited From the Manuscript of Robert Croo, 1534Besides Sharp's two editions of the Shearmen and Taylors' pageant, there is one in William Marriott's Collection of English miracle-plays or Mysteries (basel, this is an exact reprint of Sharp's text. The pageant is also included in the first volume of Prof. John Matthews Manly's Specimens of the pre-shakspearian Drama (boston, where a great deal has been done to rectify the text and metre. Prof. Manly's edition has been the basis of the text in this volume, though it has been carefully compared with the editions of Thomas Sharp. The Weavers' pageant has been published only once since the Abbotsford Club edition, that is, in Anglia, Bd. XIII. N. F. Pp. 209 - 50, under the editorship Of Prof. F. Holthausen.1 Prof. Holthausen's edition attempts to rectify the text and metre Of the pageant without the aid Of the manuscript.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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