Resumen de PERPETUALLY EDITING TOWNELEY: A Speculative Textual Note on Mrs Noah’s ‘Stafford Blue’
Many of us grew up with England and Pollard’s edition of The Towneley Plays¹ and with Arthur Cawley’s selection, The Wakefield Pageants in the Towneley Cycle.² We now work with the Early English Text Society edition by Stevens and Cawley,³ which took so long to appear that aspects of its commentary were already out of date by the time it was published, and with Garrett Epp’s TEAMS edition,⁴ which moved faster. The Towneley manuscript, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library MS HM1, to give it its full designation, has attracted, and is still attracting, so much new scholarship, especially in the...
