The Digby Mary Magdalene Play (New edition)

The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene is a rare, surviving example of the Middle English saint play.

It provides a window on the deep embedding of biblical drama and performance in late medieval devotional practices, social aspiration and critique, and religious discourses.

Fully annotated and extensively glossed, this edition adds to the METS Drama series an essential resource for the study of late medieval English religious drama.