MEDIEVAL THEATRE

• Authorship of the English Cycles - A brief study of the known facts concerning the authorship of medieval English cycles.
• The Chester Plays - A brief history of one of the few surviving cycles of English mystery plays.
• The Collective Story of the English Cycles - An overview of the dramatic narrative on which the English cycles are primarily based.
• Dawn of the English Drama - An overview of the development of English dramatic literature from the medieval Miracle Plays and Mysteries to regular tragedy and comedy.
• Drama of the Middle Ages - An overview of Medieval theatre.
• The Dramatic Development of the English Cycles - A chronicle of the dramatic development of the cycles after the reinstitution of the Corpus Christi in 1311.
• Everyman - A synopsis of the best-known medieval morality play.
• Hrosvitha - A biography of the first known playwright of the Middle Ages.
• The Interlude - A history of the comic interlude, a dramatic form which grew out of the Medieval morality play.
• The Medieval Drama - An article on the origin and development of drama during the Middle Ages.
• Morality Plays - An analysis of the development of the Medieval Morality plays.
• Mysteries and Miracle Plays - A history of the early development of Medieval religious drama.
• Secular Participation in Liturgical Plays - An examination of the transition of liturgical plays from church to guild control.
• Women and the Stage - An address by Helena Modjeska on the history of women in theatre, beginning in the Middle Ages with Hrosvitha, the nun of Gandersheim.