The castle of perseverance

Titre:	The Castell of Perseverance; The Castle of Perseverance
Date:	Vers 1440
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Moralité
Forme:	3649 vers
Contenu:	Moralité anglaise appartenant au recueil dit des Macro Morality Plays
Incipit:	The Banns Primus vexillator. Glorious God, in all degres lord most of myth, Þat heuene and erthe made of nowth, boÞe se and lond, Þe aungelys in heuene hym to serue bryth and mankynde in mydylerd he made wyth hys hond…
Explicit:	… To saue ȝou fro synnynge evyr at Þe begynnynge thynke on ȝoure last endynge! Te Deum laudamus!

Manuscrits

Washington, Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.354, f. 154r-191v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Macro Plays. 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475). 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460). 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425). Edited by F. J. Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 91), 1904, xlii + 210 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- The Macro Plays. 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475). 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460). 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425). Edited by F. J. Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 91), 1924, xlii + 210 p. [IA]
The Castle of Perseverance. The Macro Plays. No. 3, éd. John S. Farmer, London et Edinburgh, Jack (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), 1908, vii p. + f. [154-192]. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- New York, AMS Press, 1970
The Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind. Edited by Mark Eccles, London, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 262), 1969, lii + 280 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind. A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcriptions. Edited by David Bevington, New York, Johnson Reprint, 1972.
Parry, David, The Castle of Perseverance: A Critical Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 1983.
The Castle of Perseverance, edited by David N. Klausner, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts Series), 2010, vii + 145 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- The Castle of Perseverance: a modernization by Alexandra F. Johnston, based on an acting edition prepared by David M. Parry, Toronto, University of Toronto, 1999. [www]

Études

Belsey, Catherine, « The stage plan of The Castle of Perseverance », Theatre Notebook, 28:3, 1974, p. 124-132.
Bennett, Jacob, A Linguistic Study of The Castle of Perseverance, Ph. D. dissertation, Boston University, 1960.
Bennett, Jacob, « The Castle of Perseverance: redactions, place, and date », Mediaeval Studies, 24, 1962, p. 141-152.
Bevington, David, « "Man thinke on thine endinge day": stage pictures of Just Judgment in The Castle of Perseverance », In Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama, éd. David Bevington, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, p. 147-177.
Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 437-438) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Réimpressions:
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1925, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- 1948
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1954, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1963, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- 1967
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Mineola (NY), Dover Publications, 1996, 2 t. en 1 [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Cornelius, R., The Figurative Castle: A Study in the Mediaeval Allegory of the Edifice with Especial Reference to Religious Writings, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College, 1930.
Davidson, Clifford, Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays, New York, AMS Press (AMS Studies in the Middle Ages, 16), 1989, xi + 169 p. + [16] p. de pl.
Elliott, John MacKay, An Historical Study and Reconstruction of the Fifteenth-Century Play "The Castle of Perseverance", Ph. D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1977.
Gibson, Gail McMurray, « The Macro manuscripts and the making of the morality play », The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 113:3, 2019, p. 255-295. DOI: 10.1086/704388
Hildahl, Frances E., « Penitence and parody in The Castle of Perseverance », Early Drama to 1600, éd. Albert H. Tricomi, Binghamton, State University of New York Press, 1987, p. 129-141.
Holbrook, S. E., « Covetousness, contrition, and the town in The Castle of Perseverance », Fifteenth-Century Studies, 13, 1988, p. 275-289.
Houle, Peter Joseph, A Comparative Study of the English and French Full-Scope Morality Drama, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1972, 140 p.
Kelley, Michael R., Flamboyant Drama: A Study of "The Castle of Perseverance", "Mankind", and "Wisdom", Carbondale et Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press (Literary Structures), 1979, xiv + 162 p. [IA]
Lascombes, A., « Lecture du théâtre, forme dense: les auto-prosopopées du Château de Persévérance, c. 1400 », L'intelligence du passé: les faits, l'écriture et le sens. Mélanges offerts à Jean Lafond par ses amis, éd. Pierre Aquilon, Jacques Chupeau et François Weil, Tours, Université de Tours, 1988, p. 3-11.
McCutchan, J. Wilson, « Covetousness in The Castle of Perseverance », University of Virginia Studies, 4, 1951, p. 175-191.
Parry, David, « A margin of error: the problems of marginalia in The Castle of Perseverance », Editing Early English Drama: Special Problems and New Directions, éd. A. F. Johnston, New York, AMS Press, 1987, p. 33-64.
Pederson, Steven I., « The staging of The Castle of Perseverance: a re-analysis », Theatre Notebook, 39:2, 1985, p. 51–62.
Pederson, Steven I., « The staging of The Castle of Perseverance: testing the list theory », Theatre Notebook, 39:3, 1985, p. 104-113.
Proudfoot, Richard, « The virtue of perseverance », Aspects of Early English Drama, éd. Paula Neuss, Cambridge, Brewer, 1983, p. 92-110.
Ralston, Michael E., « The Four Daughters of God in The Castle of Perseverance », Comitatus, 15, 1984, p. 35-44.
Riggio, Milla C., « The allegory of feudal acquisition in The Castle of Perseverance », Allegory, Myth, and Symbol, éd. Morton W. Boomfield, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 187-208.
Schell, Edgar T., « On the imitation of Life's Pilgrimage in The Castle of Perseverance », Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 67, 1968, p. 235-248.
Schell, Edgar T., Strangers and Pilgrims from "The Castle of Perseverance" to "King Lear", Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1983, ix + 214 p.
Smart, Walter K., « The Castle of Perseverance: place, date, and a source », The Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1923, p. 42-53. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Réimpression:
- The Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature, Freeport, Books for Libraries Press, 1968, x + 432 p. [IA]
Southern, Richard, The Medieval Theatre in the Round: A Study of the Staging of "The Castle of Perseverance" and Related Matters, London, Faber and Faber, 1958; 2^e éd.: New York, Theatre Arts Books, 1975.
Umphrey, P. J., « The Castle of Perseverance, line 695 », Philological Quarterly, 59:1, 1980, p. 105-107.
Willis, James, « Stage directions in The Castell of Perseverance », The Modern Language Review, 51, 1956, p. 404-405.
Withington, Robert, « The Castle of Perseverance, line 695 », Philological Quarterly, 14, 1935, p. 270.

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