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The ""Mary Play"" is a piece of medieval stagecraft rich in music and spectacle, and is the a play which deals with Mary's parents and her early life. It is also a play which centres on a prayer, the ""Ave Maria"", and which, in its devotional intensity, reflects the central concerns of the late 15th century lay piety. This volume presents the play as a single entity rather than as a number of pageants in a cycle play. The introduction describes the manuscript, its language, place and staging. There is an extensive commentary which places the play in its intellectual and theatrical contexts.

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Peter Meredith argues for the existence of a separate Mary Play within the N-town cycle and presents it here together with extensive and valuable commentary. -Medium Aevum, Vol. LXVII, 1998

Peter Meredith argues for the existence of a separate Mary Play within the N-town cycle and presents it here together with extensive and valuable commentary. Medium Aevum, vol. LXVII 1988

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Peter Meredith is Professor of Medieval Drama in the School of English at the University of Leeds. He is currently President of the Société Internationale pour l'Etude du Théâtre Médiévale, a co-editor of Medieval English Theatre and a member of the Executive Board of the Toronto-based research project Records of Early English Drama.

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