Canvassed, or Tossed in a Blanket: Tracing a Motif from the Second Shepherds’ Play Through the Seventeenth Century

Deskis comments on the Wakefield-Towneley plays having two analogues competing to link the canvass-tossing to real-world behavior. Among other things, he intends to show that the analogues is much more likely to be relevant in the play because it relates the tossing not just to the real behavior but also to numerous scenes in the early English literature.