Towneley

Thus arose the four great cycles still extant and known as the Towneley, Chester, York, and Coventry plays, the last three designated from the place of their performance.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

There are three sets of Miracle-Plays extant, severally known as the Towneley, Coventry, and Chester Collections; the first including thirty plays, the second forty-two, and the third twenty-four.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

Sometimes, in the later period, altogether original and very realistic scenes from actual English life were added, like the very clever but very coarse parody on the Nativity play in the 'Towneley' cycle.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

I have heard you speak of Towneley as having rowed with you in a boat at Cambridge.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

"Towneley," he answered, "is not only a good fellow, but he is without exception the very best man I ever saw in my life -- except," he paid me the compliment of saying, "yourself; Towneley is my notion of everything which I should most like to be -- but there is no real solidarity between us.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

The Towneley Lectionary, one of NYPL's extraordinary renaissance illuminated manuscripts, includes this miniature sermon on the mount. due to the effects of time, some of the vivid pigment flaked off the vellum manuscript.

The New York Public Library: From Vault to Exhibition Gallery: Conserving Library Treasures The New York Public Library 2010

In the Mystery Plays there existed doubtless germs of the Meistersaenger school: the occasional strophic passages in the Towneley plays resembled to a great extent the normal Meistergesang.

Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

Towneley, and "Coventry" plays, in which the Christmas and Epiphany episodes formed but links in an immense chain extending from the Creation to the Last Judgment, and representing the whole scheme of salvation.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

It cannot compare, for character and humour, with the Towneley plays.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

"Towneley Mysteries" (a collection of plays performed at Woodkirk, formerly Widkirk, near Wakefield; see Skeat's note in _Athenæum_, Dec. 3; 1893) ed. Raine, Surtees Society, Newcastle, 1836, 8vo.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand