LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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“The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
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“The Second Shepherds’ Play”
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“The Knight’s Tale”
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“The Dream of the Rood”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Second Shepherds’ Play (Secunda Pastorum) is an example from the “Towneley Cycle” (Edminster 1) or Wakefield Cycle of mystery plays that achieved great success.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Second Shepherds’ Play (also known as The Second Shepherds’ Pageant) is a famous medieval mystery play which is contained in the manuscript HM1, the unique manuscript of the Wakefield Cycle. These plays are also referred to as the Towneley Plays, on account of the manuscript residing at Towneley Hall.
Detailed explanation-3: -anonymous Wakefield Master, and his Second Shepherds’ Play is one of the masterpieces of medieval English literature. The morality plays were allegorical dramas depicting the progress of a single character, representing the whole of humankind, from the cradle to the grave and sometimes beyond.
Detailed explanation-4: -As the editors of your anthology point out, the term “mystery” refers to the fact that the plays were produced by the medieval craft guilds, or mysteries, as they were also known.