The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

<p>Few medieval plays in English have attracted as much twenty-first-century interest as the <em>Digby Mary Magdalene</em>, an early-fifteenth-century drama that, as Chester Scoville puts it, is “probably the most spectacular of the late medieval English plays.” This new edition presents a modernized text of the play, with extensive annotation (both marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes), an insightful introduction, and a helpful selection of background contextual materials.</p>