Content area
Full Text
Nine Medieval Latin Plays, trans, and ed. Peter Dronke, Cambridge Medieval Classics 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)· xxxv + *37 PP· ISBN 0-521-39537-2. ¿30.00.
Peter Dronke's anthology of plays, which all will welcome with considerable enthusiasm, augurs most favourably for this new series, Cambridge Medieval Classics, of which this is the first volume and Dronke, fittingly, the general editor. Future volumes promise a generous view of medieval classics, from literature to philosophy and science, from the well-known to the less wellknown, both poetry and prose, both Latin and Greek. Some promised volumes contain pieces of relatively easy access in reliable editions, such as Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, though the currently available editions of these lack the English translations on facing pages that are a feature of the new series. Other promised volumes will make available texts one has always sought vainly in second-hand bookshops, such as Johannes de Hauvilla's Arcbitrenius and Nigel of Longchamp's Speculum stultorum. Historians of science will be most pleased at the forthcoming new...