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• The Medieval Drama - A history of dramatic literature as it developed during the Middle Ages.
• Authorship of the English Cycles - A brief study of the known facts concerning authorship of these Medieval plays.
• The Basochians and Enfants Sans Souci - A brief look at two bands of performers largely responsible for the development of the secular drama in medieval France.
• The Collective Story of the English Cycles - An overview of the dramatic narrative on which the English cycles are primarily based.
• The Dawn of the English Drama - A study of the development of English dramatic literature from medieval Miracle Plays and Mysteries to regular tragedy and comedy.
• Decline of Religious Drama - An examination of the forces which led to the decline of the French religious drama, the oldest institution of its kind in western Europe.
• 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 of the morality plays of the Middle Ages.
• Hrosvitha - A biography of the early Medieval dramatist.
• The Interlude - A history of the comic interlude, a dramatic form which grew out of the Medieval morality play.
• Medieval Church Plays - An overview of the development of medieval religious drama.
• The Medieval Drama - An article on the origin and development of drama during the Middle Ages.
• Minstrels and Jongleurs - A brief description of the rise and fall of the medieval minstrel.
• Moralities, Interludes and Farces of the Middle Ages - An analysis of several different forms of theatre which first appeared during the Middle Ages.
• Mysteries and Pageants in England - The arrival of the sacred play in England; some of the extant manuscripts; the cycles; the pageant; the guilds; scenery, costumes, and finance; lack of artistic quality in the biblical plays; the decline and disappearance of the biblical play.
• Secular Participation in Liturgical Plays - An article on the transition of liturgical plays from church to guild control.
• A Thousand Years of Quiescence and the Beginnings of Sacred Drama - An examination of the re-emergence of theatre from Christian ritual.
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