The Author

The work of the so called Wakefield Master, probably a cleric, is part of the mystery plays in the Towneley Cycle. This remarkable poet seems to have written his pageants between 1400 and 1450 in Wakefield, a prosperous market town in Yorkshire, where his plays were also performed.



Huntingdon Library MS HM1, fol. 38r

The Work

Processus Noe
[Prima] Pagina Pastorum
[Secunda] Pagina Pastorum
Magnus Herodes
Coliphizacio

Appendix

The Towneley Cycle at the University of Virginia
Sources/Colophon