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Subject/Essay Author Location
MacDonald, Ann-Marie    
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning
Juliet)
: From Shakespearean Tragedy to
Postmodern Satyr Play

Igor Djordjevic Volume 37, Issue 1
Spring 2003
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Machiavelli, Niccolò    
The Comic Ethos of Il Principe
view abstract
Angus Fletcher Volume 43, Issue 3
Fall 2009
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MacKaye, Percy     
Percy MacKaye: Community Drama
and the Masque Tradition
D. Heyward Brock
and James M. Welsh
Volume 6, Issue 1
Spring 1972
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Mactacio Abel    
The Medieval Plough Team on Stage:
Wordplay and Reality in the Towneley
Mactacio Abel


Margaret Rogerson Volume 28, Issue 2
Summer 1994
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A Mad World, My Masters    
The Trickster-Hero and Middleton's
A Mad World, My Masters
William W. E. Slights Volume 3, Issue 2
Summer 1969
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Magnyfycence    
Fansy and Foly: The Drama of Fools
in Magnyfycence
Peter Happé Volume 27, Issue 4
Winter 1993-94
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The Maid of Normandy    
Edmund Eyer's The Maid of Normandy;
or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish
Docudrama
view abstract
Wendy C. Nielsen Volume 40, Issue 2
Summer 2006
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The Maid's Tragedy    
Admirable Musicians: Women's Songs
in Othello and The Maid's Tragedy

Rochelle Smith Volume 28, Issue 3
Fall 1994
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Maître Guérin    
The Ending of A Doll House and
Augier's Maître Guérin
Thomas F. Van Laan Volume 17, Issue 4
Winter 1983-84
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Major Barbara    
Wagner and Shaw: Rheingold Motifs in
Major Barbara
Robert Coskren Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring 1980
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Makhadet El-Kohl    
Nonverbal Theatrical Elements in
Ntozake Shange's for colored girls…
and Intissar Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet
El-Kohl
(The Kohl Pillow)
read first paragraph

Dalia El-Shayal Volume 37, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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The Malcontent    
Temporizing as Pyrrhonizing in Marston's
The Malcontent
read first paragraph

William M. Hamlin Volume 34, Issue 3
Fall 2000
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Mallarmé, Stéphane    
The Daughters of Herodias in Hérodiade,
Salomé, and A Full Moon in March
Marilyn Gaddis Rose Volume 1, Issue 3
Fall 1967
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The Man of Mode    
Play and Passion in The Man of Mode Derek Hughes Volume 15, Issue 3
Fall 1981
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Mankind    
Mankind and Its Audience Lawrence M. Clopper Volume 8, Issue 4
Winter 1974-75
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Marco Millions    
Taoism and O'Neill's Marco Millions James A. Robinson Volume 14, Issue 3
Fall 1980
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Marlowe, Christopher    
Disorder in the House of God: Disrupted
Worship in Shakespeare and Others
Bruce Boehrer Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2004

Doctor Faustus and Hamlet: Contrasting
Kinds of Christian Tragedy
Thomas B. Stroup Volume 5, Issue 4
Winter 1971-72

Marlowe's Edward II and
the Medieval Passion Play


Patrick Ryan Volume 32, Issue 4
Winter 1998-99
Marlowe's Texts and Oral Transmissions:
Towards the Zielform
read first paragraph

Thomas Pettitt Volume 39, Issue 2
Summer 2005
Marlowe's Travesty of Virgil: Dido
and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire
read first paragraph


Donald Stump Volume 34, Issue 1
Spring 2000
Matthew Parker's Pastoral Training and
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Celia Barnes Volume 15, Issue 3
Fall 1981

Ritual in Marlowe's Plays Thomas B. Stroup Volume 7, Issue 3
Fall 1973

Tamburlaine "as fierce Achilles was" John Cutts Volume 1, Issue 2
Summer 1967

Unpardonable Sins: The Hazards of
Performative Language in the Tragic Cases
of Francesco Spiera and Doctor Faustus

Daniel Gates Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2004
The Voice of Marlowe's Tamburlaine in
Early Shakespeare


Maurice Charney Volume 31, Issue 2
Summer 1997
"You Talks Brave and Bold": The Origins
of an Elizabethan Stage Device
Kenneth Friedenreich Volume 8, Issue 3
Fall 1974
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Marquis de Sade    
From Cruelty to Theatre: Antonin Artaud
and the Marquis de Sade
Franco Tonelli Volume 3, Issue 2
Summer 1969
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Marston, John    
Antonio's Revenge: "Never more woe in
lesser plot was found"
George L. Geckle Volume 6, Issue 4
Winter 1972-73

Borrowings and the Authorial Domain:
Gostanzo, Polonius, and Marston's
Gonzago
view abstract

Charles Cathcart Volume 37, Issue 2
Summer 2003
John Marston's Histriomastix
and the Golden Age
George L. Geckle Volume 6, Issue 3
Fall 1972

The Sacrilization of Revenge in
Antonio's Revenge

read first paragraph

Phoebe S. Spinrad Volume 39, Issue 2
Summer 2005
Temporizing as Pyrrhonizing in Marston's
The Malcontent
read first paragraph

William M. Hamlin Volume 34, Issue 3
Fall 2000

Writing and Revenge: John Marston's
Histriomastix
view abstract
James P. Bednarz Volume 36, Issue 1,2
Spring/Summer 2002
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Marxism    
The Marxist Theater of Amiri Baraka W. D. E. Andrews Volume 18, Issue 2
Summer 1984

The Theatre of Ruthless Metaphor:
Polish Theatre Between Marxism
and Existentialism
Zbigniew Folejewski Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969

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Mary Magdalene    
Sovereignty in the Digby Mary Magdalene John W. Velz Volume 2, Issue 1
Spring 1968
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Maslow, Abraham    
Ecstasy and Peak-Experience:
W. B. Yeats, Marghanita Laski,
and Abraham Maslow

Natalie Crohn Schmitt Volume 28, Issue 2
Summer 1994
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Masque Drama    
The Anonymous Masque-like Entertainment
in Egerton MS. 1994, and Richard Brome
John Cutts Volume 1, Issue 4
Winter 1967-68

The Masks of Cupid and Death Judith Dundas Volume 29, Issue 1
Spiring 1995

The Masque of Hymen in As You Like It Marilyn L. Williamson Volume 2, Issue 4
Winter 1968-69

Percy MacKaye: Community Drama and the
Masque Tradition
Brock D. Heyward
and James M. Welsh
Volume 6, Issue 1
Spring 1972

Seventeenth-Century Illustrations of Three
Masques by Jonson
John P. Cutts Volume 6, Issue 2
Summer 1972

"Those Beautiful Characters of Sense":
Classical Deities and the Court Masque
Judith Dundas Volume16, Issue 2
Summer 1982
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Massinger, Philip    
Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman
Imperial Character
view abstract

John E. Curran, Jr. Volume 43, Issue 3
Fall 2009
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Master Builder    
Nietzsche, Georg Brandes, and Ibsen's
Master Builder
Michael W. Kaufman Volume 6, Issue 3
Fall 1972
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Master Harold and the Boys    
"Master Harold" and the Bard:
Education and Succession in
Fugard and Shakespeare

David E. Hoegberg Volume 29, Issue 4
Winter 1995-96
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Medea    
Euripides in South Africa:
Medea and Demea


Albert Wertheim Volume 29, Issue 3
Fall 1995
Euripides' Medea: The Stranger
in the House

S. Georgia Nugent
Volume 27, Issue 3
Fall 1993

Trial and Terror: Medea Prima Facie Anthony Kubiak Volume 23, Issue 1
Spring 1989

The Trope of Transformation in Medea:
A Noh Cycle
view abstract
Loren Edelson Volume 37, Issue 1
Spring 2003
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Medieval Drama    
Audience and Meaning in Two Medieval
Dramatic Realisms
William F. Munson Volume 9, Issue 1
Spring 1975

Code-Switching in Medieval
English Drama
Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 31, Issue 4
Winter 1997-98

Comic Eschatology in the Chester
Coming of Antichrist
Leslie Howard Martin Volume 5, Issue 3
Fall 1971

Damnable Deconstructions: Vice
Language in the Interlude


Alan Somerset Volume 31, Issue 4
Winter 1997-98
The Earliest Middle English Interludes
view abstract

Stephanie Thompson Lundeen  Volume 43, Issue 3
Fall 2009
European Influences and National Tradition in Medieval Hungarian Theater György E. Szönyi Volume 15, Issue 2
Summer 1981

The Fleury Playbook and the Traditions
of Medieval Latin Drama
C. Clifford Flanigan Volume 18, Issue 4
Winter 1984-85

From Jerusalem to Damascus:
Bilocal Dramaturgy in Medieval and
Shakespearean Conversion Plays


John W. Velz Volume 15, Issue 4
Winter 1981-82
Herod the Great in Medieval
European Drama
Miriam Anne Skey Volume 13, Issue 4
Winter 1979-80

The Idea of a Person in Medieval
Morality Plays
Natalie Crohn Schmitt Volume 12, Issue 1
Spring 1978

Medieval Korean Drama:
The Pongsan Mask Dance
view abstract

Dongchoon Lee Volume 39, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
Laughter in Medieval English Drama:
A Critique of Modernizing and
Historical Analyses
read first paragraph


Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 36, Issue 1,2
Spring/Summer 2002
Mactacio Desdemonae: Medieval Scenic
Form in the Last Scene of Othello
Cherrell Guilfoyle Volume 19, Issue 4
Winter 1985-86

Marriage in Late Medieval German Easter
and Shrovetide Plays
view abstract

Albrecht Classen Volume 40, Issue 1
Spring 2006
Medieval Drama: Diversity and Theatricality Clifford Davidson Volume 8, Issue 1
Spring 1974

The Medieval Plough Team on Stage:
Wordplay and Reality in the Towneley
Mactacio Abel


Margaret Rogerson Volume 28, Issue 2
Summer 1994
The Melodies of the Medieval
Church-Dramas and Their Significance
William L. Smolden Volume 2, Issue 3
Fall 1968

The Middle English Resurrection Play
and Its Dramatic Antecedents
Brawer, Robert A. Volume 8, Issue 1
Spring 1974

Narrative Bible Cycles in Medieval
Art and Drama
Patrick J. Collins Volume 9, Issue 2
Summer 1975

The Narrator within the Performance:
Problems with Two Medieval "Plays"
Bruce Moore Volume 22, Issue 1
Spring 1988

Quod quaeritis, o discipuli Merle Fifield Volume 5, Issue 1
Spring 1971

Sacred Blood and the Medieval Stage


Clifford Davidson Volume 31, Issue 3
Fall 1997

Some Clerical Notions of Dramatic
Decorum in Late Medieval England
Marianne G. Briscoe Volume 19, Issue 1
Spring 1985

"Some shall be pardon'd, and some
punished": Medieval Dramatic
Eschatology in Shakespeare


John W. Velz Volume 26, Issue 4
Winter 1992-93
Source of Order or Sovereign Lord:
God and the Pattern of Relationships
in Two Middle English "Fall of
Lucifer" Plays


Jean Q. Seaton Volume 18, Issue 3
Fall 1984
Techniques of Transcendence
in Medieval Drama
Robert Edwards Volume 8, Issue 2
Summer 1974

The Trinity in Medieval Drama Lynette R. Muir Volume 10, Issue 2
Summer 1976

Two Medieval Cornish Versions of the
Creation of the World
Robert Longsworth Volume 21, Issue 3
Fall 1987

Typology, Criticism, and Medieval Drama:
Some Observations on Method
Patrick J. Collins Volume 10, Issue 4
Winter 1976-77

The Use of Architectural Space in
Medieval Music-Drama
Dunbar H. Ogden Volume 8, Issue 1
Spring 1974

"You Have Begun a Parlous Pleye":
The Nature and Limits of Dramatic
Mimesis as a Theme in Four Middle
English 'Fall of Lucifer' Cycle Plays


R. W. Hanning Volume 7, Issue 1
Spring 1973


"Wee happy heardsmen here":
A Newly Discovered Shepherd's Carol
Possibly Belonging to a Medieval Pageant


John P. Cutts Volume 18, Issue 3
Fall 1984
The Weeping Mothers in Sumidigawa,
Curlew River
, and Medieval
European Religious Plays
view abstract

Mikio Ishii Volume 39, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
Women and Mimesis in Medieval and
Renaissance Somerset (and Beyond)


James Stokes Volume 27, Issue 2
Summer 1993
Writing Before the Eye: The N-Town
Woman Taken in Adultery and the
Medieval Ministry Play
Gail McMurray Gibson Volume 27, Issue 4
Winter 1993-94

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Melville, Herman    
Ahab's Quenchless Feud: The Tragic
Vision In Shakespeare and Melville
Richard B. Sewall Volume 1, Issue 3
Fall 1967
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Menaechmi    
Menaechmi and the Renaissance Comedy
view abstract
Richard F. Hardin Volume 37, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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The Messiahs    
Liliane Atlan's The Messiahs
as Cosmic Theatre
Bettina Knapp Volume 9, Issue 3
Fall 1975
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Metadrama    
The Evolution of Shakespearean
Metadrama: Abel, Burkhardt,
and Calderwood

Richard Fly Volume 20, Issue 2
Summer 1986


From Saint Genesius to Kean: Actors,
Martyrs, and Metatheater
view abstract


Mary Ann Frese Witt Volume 43, Issue 1
Spring 2009
 
Suicide as Message and Metadrama in
English Renaissance Tragedy
Richard K. Sanderson Volume 26, Issue 3
Fall 1992
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Metamorphoses    
Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses:
Mythic Revision as Cathartic Ritual
view abstract

Miriam M. Chirico Volume 42, Issue 2
Summer 2008
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Mexican Theater    
The Revista Contemporáneos and the
Development of the Mexican Theater
Edward J. Mullen Volume 4, Issue 4
Winter 1970-71
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Meyerhold, Vsevold    
Meyerhold Meets Mei Lanfang: Staging
the Grotesque and the Beautiful

Min Tian Volume 33, Issue 2
Summer 1999
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Michel, Jean    
Social Disorder: Festive Celebration
and Jean Michel's Le Mistere de la
Passion JesusCrist

Sandra Billington Volume 29, Issue 2
Summer 1995
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Middleton, Thomas    
The Changeling: Notes on Mannerism
in Dramatic Form
Raymond J. Pentzell Volume 9, Issue 1
Spring 1975

Fertility and Comic Form in
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Arthur F. Marotti Volume 3, Issue 1
Spring 1969

"Framing" as Collaborative Technique:
Two Middleton-Rowley Plays
Michael E. Mooney Volume 13, Issue 2
Summer 1979

Madhouse Optics: The Changeling Joseph M. Duffy Volume 8, Issue 2
Summer 1974

The Secular Morality of Middleton’s
City Comedies
view abstract

Derek B. Alwes Volume 42, Issue 2
Summer 2008
Settling House in Middleton's
Women Beware Women


Ann C. Christensen Volume 29, Issue 4
Winter 1995-96
Thomas Middleton's Prodigal Play Leanore Lieblein Volume 10, Issue 1
Spring 1976

The Trickster-Hero and Middleton's
A Mad World, My Masters
William W. E. Slights Volume 3, Issue 2
Summer 1969

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Miller, Arthur    
The Achievement of Arthur Miller Robert W. Corrigan Volume 2, Issue 3
Fall 1968

An Enemy of the People: A Key to
Arthur Miller's Art and Ethics
David Bronson Volume 2, Issue 4
Winter 1968-69

The Defense of Psychoanalysis in Literature:
Long Day's Journey Into Night and
A View From The Bridge
Albert Rothenberg
and Eugene D. Shapiro
Volume 7, Issue 1
Spring 1973

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Milton, John    
The Emotional Theater of Milton’s
Paradise Lost
view abstract

Elizabeth Bradburn Volume 40, Issue 1
Spring 2006
Milton, Dryden, and the
Ideology of Genre
D. M. Rosenberg Volume 21, Issue 1
Spring 1987

Renaissance Power and Stuart Dramaturgy: Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden John D. Cox Volume 22, Issue 4
Winter 1988-89
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Mimesis    
Radical Mimesis:
The "Pinter Problem"  Revisited


David Z. Saltz Volume 26, Issue 3
Fall 1992
Women and Mimesis in Medieval and
Renaissance Somerset (and Beyond)
James Stokes Volume 27, Issue 2
Summer 1993

"You Have Begun a Parlous Pleye":
The Nature and Limits of Dramatic
Mimesis as a Theme in Four Middle
English 'Fall of Lucifer' Cycle Plays

R. W. Hanning Volume 7, Issue 1
Spring 1973
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Misanthropes    
A Dramatic History of Misanthropes David Konstan Volume 17, Issue 2
Summer 1983
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The Miseries of Civil War    
'Hay for the Daughters!' Gender and
Patriarchy in The Miseries of Civil
War
and Henry VI

Joyce Green
MacDonald
Volume 24, Issue 3
Fall 1990
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Le Mistere de la Passion JesusCrist    
Social Disorder: Festive Celebration
and Jean Michel's Le Mistere de la
Passion JesusCrist

Sandra Billington Volume 29, Issue 2
Summer 1995
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Miss Julie    
The Dilemma of Naturalistic Tragedy:
Strindberg's Miss Julie
read first paragraph

Göran Stockenström Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2004
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Modern Drama    
The Mirror as Stage Prop in
Modern Drama
Thomas P. Adler Volume 14, Issue 4
Winter 1980-81

The Modern British Homecoming Play Albert Wertheim Volume 19, Issue 2
Summer 1985
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Molière    
Serving Don Juan: Decorum in
Tirso de Molina and Molière
view abstract

Robert Bayliss Volume 40, Issue 2
Summer 2006
The Actor and the Statue: Space,
Time, and Court Performance in
Molière's Dom Juan


Michael Spingler Volume 25, Issue 4
Winter 1991-92

The King's Play: Censorship and the Politics
of Performance in Molière's Tartuffe
Michael Spingler Volume 19, Issue 3
Fall 1985
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Monologue    
Point of View in Drama: Diegetic
Monologue, Unreliable Narrators,
and The Author's Voice on Stage

Brian Richardson Volume 22, Issue 3
Fall 1988
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Monteverdi, Claudio    
Love and Infamy: The Paradox of
Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Edward B. Savage Volume 4, Issue 3
Fall 1970
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A Moon for the the Misbegotten    
O'Neill's Transcendence of Melodrama
in A Touch of the Poet and A Moon
for the Misbegotten
Michael Manheim Volume 16, Issue 3
Fall 1982

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Morality Plays    
The Community of Morality Plays Merle Fifield Volume 9, Issue 4
Winter 1975-76

Costume in the Moralities: The Evidence
of East Anglian Art
Ann Eljenholm Nichols Volume 20, Issue 4
Winter 1986-87

Dramatic Allegory, or, Exploring the
Moral Play
Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz Volume 7, Issue 1
Spring 1973

L'Escole au deable: Tavern Scenes
in the Old French Moralité


Alan Hindley Volume 33, Issue 4
Winter 1999-2000
The Idea of a Person in Medieval
Morality Plays
Natalie Crohn Schmitt Volume 12, Issue 1
Spring 1978

The Morality Play: Ancestor of
Elizabethan Drama?
John Wasson Volume 13, Issue 3
Fall 1979

The Ordo Virtutum: Ancestor of the
English Moralities?


Robert Potter Volume 20, Issue 3
Fall 1986
Ovid in the Andes: The New World
Morality Play, El rapto Proserpina
y sueño de Endimion


Barbara H. Jaye Volume 28, Issue 4
Winter 1994-95
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More, Sir Thomas    
More's Richard III and Jonson's
Richard Crookback
and Sejanus
Robert C. Evans Volume 24, Issue 2
Summer 1990
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Mother Courage    
All in the Family: Mother Courage
and the Ideology in the Gestus
Claire Gleitman Volume 25, Issue 2
Summer 1991
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Mummings at Hertford    
Lydgate's Mummings and the Aristocratic
Resistance to Drama
read first paragraph

Robert Epstein Volume 36, Issue 3,4  Fall/Winter 2002-03
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Murder in the Cathedral    
Evidence for Ambivalence of Motives in
Murder in the Cathedral
John P. Cutts Volume 8, Issue 2
Summer 1974

"Peace" and "Unbar the Door": T. S. Eliot's
Murder in the Cathedral and Some
Stoic Forebears

Edna G. Sharoni Volume 6, Issue 2
Summer 1972
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Music Drama    
Chavittunātakam: Music-Drama in Kerala
read first paragraph
Joly Puthussery Volume 37, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2003-04

How Music Matters: Some Songs
of Robert Johnson in the Plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher


Catherine A. Henze Volume 34, Issue 1
Spring 2000
Mysteries, Minstrels, and Music JoAnna Dutka Volume 8, Issue 1
Spring 1974

The Playwright as Perfect Wagnerite:
Motifs from the Music Dramas in the
Theatre of Bernard Shaw
Arthur Ganz Volume 13, Issue 3
Fall 1979


The Use of Architectural Space in
Medieval Music-Drama
Dunbar H. Ogden Volume 8, Issue 1
Spring 1974

Visions with Voices: The Rhetoric of
Memory and Music in Liturgical Drama
Jody Enders Volume 24, Issue 1
Spring 1990
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Mystère d'Adam    
The Mystère d'Adam and
Christian Memory

Jerome Mazzaro Volume 31, Issue 4
Winter 1997-98
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Mystery Plays/Cycles    
An Interlude or Mystery Play by
William Ireland, 1795
J. W. Robinson Volume 13, Issue 3,
Fall 1979

Anti-Semitism and the English
Mystery Plays
Stephen Spector Volume 13, Issue 1
Spring 1979

The Devil and Society in the
English Mystery Play
John D. Cox Volume 28, Issue 4
Winter 1994-95

Music and the English Mystery Plays JoAnna Dutka Volume 7, Issue 3
Summer 1973

The Skill of Cain in the English
Mystery Cycles


Blair W. Boone Volume 16, Issue 2
Summer 1982
Theatrical Pragmatics: The Actor-Audience
Relationship from the Mystery Cycles
to the Early Tudor Comedies

Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 23, Issue 2
Summer 1989

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