Wisdom

Titre:	Wisdom; Wysdome; Mind, Will and Understanding
Date:	Fin du XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Moralité
Forme:	1163 vers
Contenu:	Moralité anglaise appartenant au recueil dit des Macro Morality Plays
Incipit:	Fyrst enteryde Wysdome in a ryche purpull clothe of golde wyth a mantyll of the same ermynnyde wythin, hawynge abowt hys neke a ryall hood furred wyth ermyn, wpon hys hede a cheweler wyth browys, a berde of golde of sypres curlyed…
Explicit:	… in grace, and vycys to eschew, ande so to ende wyth perfeccyon. That þe doctryne of Wysdom we may sew, Sapiencia Patris, grawnt þat for hys passyon! Amen! Wysdom. Anima, Fyve Wyttys. Mynde. Wndyrstondynge. Lucyfer.

Manuscrits

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 133, f. 158r-169v [⇛ Description]
Washington, Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.354, f. 98r-121r [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Ancient Mysteries from the Digby Manuscripts. Preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. [Edited by Thomas Sharp], Edinburgh, Edinburgh Printing Company for The Abbotsford Club, 1835, [vii] + xlvii + 200 + viii p. [GB] [IA]
The Digby Mysteries. 1. The Killing of the Children. 2. The Conversion of St Paul. 3. Mary Magdalene. 4. Christ's Burial and Resurrection, With an Incomplete Morality of Wisdom, Who Is Christ (Part of One of the "Macro Moralities). Edited from the Mss. by F. J. Furnivall, London, Trübner for The New Shakspere Society (New Shakspere Society. Series VII), 1882, xxxii + 239 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpressions:
- The Digby Plays With an Incomplete "Morality" of Wisdom, Who Is Christ (Part of One of the "Macro Moralities"). Re-issued from the plates of the text edited by F. J. Furnivall for The New Shakspere Society in 1882, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. for The Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 70), 1896, xxxii + 239 p. [GB] [IA]
- 1930
- The Digby Plays With an Incomplete "Morality" of Wisdom, Who Is Christ (Part of One of the "Macro Moralities"). Re-issued from the plates of the text edited by F. J. Furnivall for The New Shakspere Society in 1882, London, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press for The Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 70), 1967, xxxii + 239 p. [IA]
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]
Wisdom or Mind, Will, and Understanding. The Macro Plays. No. 2, éd. John S. Farmer, London et Edinburgh, Jack (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), 1907, vii p. + f. [98-122]. [GB] [IA]
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.
The Digby Plays: Facsimiles of the Plays in Bodley MSS Digby 133 and e Museo 160. With an Introduction by Donald C. Baker and J. L. Murphy, Leeds, University of Leeds, School of English (Leeds Texts and Monographs, New Series, 7; Medieval Drama Facsimiles, 3), 1976, xix + [248] p.
The Late Medieval Religious Plays of Bodleian Mss Digby 133 and e Museo 160, edited by Donald C. Baker, John L. Murphy and Louis B. Hall, Jr., Oxford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society, 283), 1982, cviii + 284 p. + [3] p. de pl.
Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom, edited by David N. Klausner, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 2008, 126 p. [lib.rochester.edu] DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1z3hm9h

Traductions modernes

Études

Beadle, Richard, « Monk Thomas Hyngham's hand in the Macro manuscript », New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle, éd. Richard Beadle et A. J. Piper, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1995, p. 315-341.
Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 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]
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.
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
Gillespie, Vincent, « Venus in sackcloth: the Digby Mary Magdalen and Wisdom fragment », The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama, éd. Thomas Betteridge et Greg Walker, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 72-92.
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]

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