Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays; (Everyman's Library #381)

A 1970 reprint of the 1956 revision. An Everyman's Library edition presenting several medieval miracle plays, including the well-known "Everyman." These Corpus Christi pageants are often short dramas acted out by trade guilds as individual episodes in the larger Corpus Christi cycle. With editor A. C. Cawley's revised and re-edited text, with original wording but with modern spellings; and with definitions of some difficult or archaeic terms. Includes an introduction by Cawley. Entry 381 in Everyman's Library series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In light blue dust jacket with Eric Fraser drawing to front panel. --- An excellent copy: bright, tightly-bound and clean, though with retailer's price notation on front free endpaper. Price-clipped jacket is well-preserved, though with a little creasing and chafing to extremities; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxi, [3], 3-266 pages.…