* Mystery play texts in the cycles from Chester, Wakefield, York and n-Town

Part I, entitled The Genesis Mediaeval Mystery Plays: The Creation to Jacob ( at the Young Vic originally called simply Mediaeval Mystery Plays ), was Dunlop's reworking of the first six of the medieval Wakefield Mystery Plays, with music by Alan Doggett.

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The most famous plays of the Towneley collection are attributed to the Wakefield Master, an anonymous playwright who wrote in the fifteenth century.

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, consists of of landscaped ground with a large collection of sculptures including some by Elisabeth Frink, some by Auguste Rodin, and others by local sculptors Barbara Hepworth, born in Wakefield, and Henry Moore, born in Castleford.

In The New York Times Book Review, the novelist and screenwriter Dan Wakefield wrote, " Didion's first collection of nonfiction writing, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, brings together some of the finest magazine pieces published by anyone in this country in recent years.

The most complete is the York cycle of forty-eight pageants ; there are also the Towneley plays of thirty-two pageants, once thought to have been a true ' cycle ' of plays acted at Wakefield ; the Ludus Coventriae ( also called the N Town plays " or Hegge cycle ), now generally agreed to be a redacted compilation of at least three older, unrelated plays, and the Chester cycle of twenty-four pageants, now generally agreed to be an Elizabethan reconstruction of older medieval traditions.

Perhaps the most famous of the mystery plays, at least to modern readers and audiences, are those of Wakefield.

Unfortunately, we cannot know whether the plays of the Towneley manuscript are actually the plays performed at Wakefield but a reference in the Second Shepherds ' Play to Horbery Shrogys ( line 454 ) is strongly suggestive.

Fleay saw grounds for assigning to Lodge Mucedorus and Amadine, played by the Queen's Men about 1588, a share with Robert Greene in George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, and in Shakespeare's 2nd part of Henry VI ; he also regards him as at least part-author of The True Chronicle of King Leir and his three Daughters ( 1594 ); and The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England ( c. 1588 ); in the case of two other plays he allowed the assignation to Lodge to be purely conjectural.

* Tom Murphy's plays The Sanctuary Lamp and The Vicar of Wakefield are produced.

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats are a professional rugby league club that plays in the European Super League and is based in Wakefield.

Besides Wakefield and Youkilis, other Major League Baseball players that performed at Lake Olmstead Stadium include Moisés Alou, Emmanuel Burriss, Carlos García, John Grabow, Brian Horwitz, Jason Kendall, Orlando Merced, Hanley Ramírez, Pablo Sandoval, Eugenio Vélez, Brian Wilson ( baseball ) and Tony Womack.

The Mysteries is an adaption by the poet Tony Harrison, principally based upon the Wakefield Cycle, but incorporating scenes from the York, Chester and N-Town canons, first performed in 1977 at the National Theatre, and again revived in 2000 as a celebration of the millennium.

Rinzler was replaced in 1965 by the Tennessee-born mandolin virtuoso Frank Wakefield who, at the age of 31, was already a legendary figure in Bluegrass music, having performed since the age of 16 with such Bluegrass stars as the Stanley Brothers, Jimmy Martin and Red Allen and the Kentuckians.

In medieval times Wakefield became an inland port on the Calder and centre for the woollen and tanning trades.

Sandal Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Sandal Magna, a suburb of the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, overlooking the River Calder.

* Edward Gibbon Wakefield – British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonization of South Australia, and later New Zealand

Hall, had the town site of Wakefield platted in May 1886 ; the general location was already being referred to as " Wakefield " as early as the fall of 1884.

The founding of Wakefield and much of its early history was based upon the discovery of iron ore on the east end of Sunday Lake by George A. Fay in 1881.

* Wakefield Senior Citizen Center at 900 Pierce Street was established in the early 1950s.

The early trade consisted mainly of woollen goods from Leeds, Wakefield, Halifax and Bradford, with wool and corn from Lincolnshire and East Anglia travelling in the opposite direction.

The main attractions, in addition to a picturesque setting, are the covered bridge spanning the Gatineau River, the Maclaren Mill built in 1838 and named after an early family in the region, now restored and operated as the Wakefield Mill Inn and Spa and the Black Sheep Inn ( or Auberge Mouton Noir, as its sign reads to conform with Quebec language laws.

Edward Gibbon Wakefield ( 20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862 ) was a British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonisation of South Australia, and later New Zealand.

Wakefield returned to England early in 1844 to find the New Zealand Company under serious attack from the Colonial Office.

Wakefield approached him early in the New Year with a fairly radical plan, that both the Government and the New Zealand Company should withdraw from New Zealand affairs and the colony should become self governing.

Unfortunately the Crown Commissioner was Wakefield's second cousin, Francis Dillon Bell, early New Zealand really was a Wakefield family business.

Wakefield arrived back in Port Nicholson in early January, 1840.

William Wakefield became an early leader in the colonization of New Zealand, see New Zealand Company.

He died in Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, early on 21 February 2004.

The ground was officially opened on 27 September 1886 for a game against Wakefield Trinity which was watched by a capacity crowd, but construction work meant most of Manningham's early games were away fixtures.

Wakefield put together a startling series of results early in the 1999 season, beating some of the most fancied sides and ensuring early in the campaign that they would be safe.

Wakefield was a focus for settlement due to its location on the Saugatucket River and the old Post Road, which was laid out early in the 18th century.

The first castles were probably started and completed in the early 12th century by William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey after he had been granted the manor of Wakefield by Henry I.

Though getting on the wrong side of Colonel Wakefield, the Company's Principal Agent, and being dismissed as Surveyor General from early 1842, when he was replaced without warning by Samuel Charles Brees, he was commissioned to sail down the East Coast of the South Island in September 1842 to help locate another site for settlement by the New Zealand Company.

His youngest brother, Roger Cuthbert Wakefield, was an early British & Irish Lion, touring on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina.

In the composition of the book, Darwin drew on world-wide responses to his questionnaire ( circulated in the early months of 1867 ) concerning emotional expression in different ethnic groups, on hundreds of photographs of actors, babies and children, and on descriptions of psychiatric patients in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

The area falling under Wakefield Regional Council ( WRC ) has been much affected by local government boundary changes that have taken place since the early 1980s.

Essentially a Palladian, early in his career he was Clerk of Works at Nostell Priory, and worked on many other projects in the area including Heath House in the village of Heath in between Nostell Priory and Wakefield.

When an open architectural competition took place in 1892 for a County Hall ( see photo, right ) to be built in Wakefield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the instructions to competitors noted that " the style of architecture will be left to the competitors but the Queen Anne or Renaissance School of Architecture appears suited to an old town like Wakefield " ( ref.

In 1748, at age sixteen, Lee left Virginia for Yorkshire, England, to complete his formal education at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield, England.

* March 7 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the future politician in colonial New Zealand.

* January 13 – Serial killer Harold Shipman is found hanged in his cell at Wakefield Prison, four years after being convicted of murdering 15 patients in Cheshire, England.

The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield, in West Yorkshire in Northern England, on 30 December 1460.

The Wakefield ancestry is traced back to John Wakefield, who was born about 1614, probably in Gravesend, County Kent, England and immigrated to Virginia aboard the " America " in June 1635, along with his brothers Richard Wakefield and Thomas Wakefield.

Wakefield, in Yorkshire, England, is near Wentworth Castle, the home of the Wentworth ancestors.

Castleford is the largest of the " five towns " district in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.

Walton is a village and civil parish in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield.

Walton Hall is a stately home in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield.

West Bretton is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.

Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England.

Newmillerdam is a village and suburb of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.

Nostell is a village in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, near Hemsworth.

Ossett () is a market town within the metropolitan district of the City of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.

Oulton is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England, between Leeds and Wakefield.

* Sandal, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England

* Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, since 1956