| Volume I |
| | | PAGE |
| Preface | [v] |
| List of Authorities | [xiii] |
| BOOK I. MINSTRELSY |
| CHAP. | | | |
| I. | The Fall of the Theatres | [1] |
| II. | Mimus and Scôp | [23] |
| III. | The Minstrel Life | [42] |
| IV. | The Minstrel Repertory | [70] |
| BOOK II. FOLK DRAMA |
| V. | The Religion of the Folk | [89] |
| VI. | Village Festivals | [116] |
| VII. | Festival Play | [146] |
| VIII. | The May-Game | [160] |
| IX. | The Sword-Dance | [182] |
| X. | The Mummers’ Play | [205] |
| XI. | The Beginning of Winter | [228] |
| XII. | New Year Customs | [249] |
| XIII. | The Feast of Fools | [274] |
| XIV. | The Feast of Fools (continued) | [301] |
| XV. | The Boy Bishop | [336] |
| XVI. | Guild Fools and Court Fools | [372] |
| XVII. | Masks and Misrule | [390] |
| Volume II |
| BOOK III. RELIGIOUS DRAMA |
| XVIII. | Liturgical Plays | 1 |
| XIX. | Liturgical Plays (continued) | 41 |
| XX. | The Secularization of the Plays | 68 |
| XXI. | Guild Plays and Parish Plays | 106 |
| XXII. | Guild Plays and Parish Plays (continued) | 124 |
| XXIII. | Moralities, Puppet-Plays, and Pageants | 149 |
| BOOK IV. THE INTERLUDE |
| XXIV. | Players of Interludes | 179 |
| XXV. | Humanism and Mediaevalism | 199 |
| APPENDICES |
| A. | The Tribunus Voluptatum | 229 |
| B. | Tota Ioculatorum Scena | 230 |
| C. | Court Minstrelsy in 1306 | 234 |
| D. | The Minstrel Hierarchy | 238 |
| E. | Extracts from Account Books | 240 |
| I. | Durham Priory | 240 |
| II. | Maxstoke Priory | 244 |
| III. | Thetford Priory | 245 |
| IV. | Winchester College | 246 |
| V. | Magdalen College, Oxford | 248 |
| VI. | Shrewsbury Corporation | 250 |
| VII. | The Howards of Stoke-by-Nayland, Essex | 255 |
| VIII. | The English Court | 256 |
| F. | Minstrel Guilds | 258 |
| G. | Thomas de Cabham | 262 |
| H. | Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth | 263 |
| I. | A Squire Minstrel | 263 |
| II. | The Coventry Hock-Tuesday Show | 264 |
| I. | The Indian Village Feast | 266 |
| J. | Sword-Dances | 270 |
| I. | Sweden (sixteenth century) | 270 |
| II. | Shetland (eighteenth century) | 271 |
| K. | The Lutterworth St. George Play | 276 |
| L. | The Prose of the Ass | 279 |
| M. | The Boy Bishop | 282 |
| I. | The Sarum Office | 282 |
| II. | The York Computus | 287 |
| N. | Winter Prohibitions | 290 |
| O. | The Regularis Concordia of St. Ethelwold | 306 |
| P. | The Durham Sepulchrum | 310 |
| Q. | The Sarum Sepulchrum | 312 |
| R. | The Dublin Quem Quaeritis | 315 |
| S. | The Aurea Missa of Tournai | 318 |
| T. | Subjects of the Cyclical Miracles | 321 |
| U. | Interludium de Clerico et Puella | 324 |
| V. | Terentius et Delusor | 326 |
| W. | Representations of Mediaeval Plays | 329 |
| X. | Texts of Mediaeval Plays and Interludes | 407 |
| I. | Miracle-Plays | 407 |
| II. | Popular Moralities | 436 |
| III. | Tudor Makers of Interludes | 443 |
| IV. | List of Early Tudor Interludes | 453 |
| SUBJECT INDEX | 462 |