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Thank you, Pam. Very good advice that I will pass along. Steve ________________________________________ From: REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Pamela King [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:01 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: York Master? I think this is the safest formulation, Steve, except I might say "formerly attributed to the so-called York Realist", as it is not only the identification of a single hand that has come under scrutiny, but also what could be understood as "realism". Best wishes, Pam --On 30 October 2012 21:47 +0000 "Wright, Stephen K" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Cliff. My sense of the matter is that there is an > increasing degree of skepticism that all of these works must be > attributed to a single individual. They might point to a convergence of > metrical, stylistic, lexical, structural, and thematic traits produced by > several hands. I think I'm just going to caution my colleague and advise > him to use the old dodge: "a play often attributed to the so-called > 'York Realist'." Steve > ________________________________________ > From: REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion > [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Clifford O Davidson > [clifford.davidson@WMICHU] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:39 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: York Master? > > Steve, > > It is a problem that has been considered by Paul Johnston in his > contribution to my TEAMS edition of the York plays. His results are > tentative, and he hopes eventually to do a book on the topic. I > personally after editing the plays suspect a number of hands involved > rather than a single "York Master," but I don't have the linguistic > expertise that Paul has. > > Cliff > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stephen K Wright" <[log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 4:27:19 PM >> Subject: York Master? >> >> Dear Reedlers: >> >> I would like to know more about the current state of thinking about >> the existence of the so-called "York Master"? I know that Richard >> Beadle felt that a reconsideration was in order, but I am not sure >> as to what the current state of the discussion is. Could someone >> point me to the latest literature on the topic? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Steve Wright >> Dept of English / CUA >> Washington, DC 2006 >> ---------------------- Pamela M King Professor of Medieval Studies, Deputy Head of Research, Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, School of Humanities University of Bristol, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol. BS8 1TB 0117 928 8909 [log in to unmask]