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Medieval theatre encompasses theatrical in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century. The category of "medieval theatre" is vast, covering dramatic performance in Europe over a thousand-year period.
During the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and then James I (1603–25), in the late 16th and early 17th century, a London-centred culture, that was both courtly and popular, produced great poetry and drama. The English playwrights were intrigued by Italian model: a conspicuous community of Italian actors had settled in London.
The Coventry Mystery Plays, or Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants, are a cycle of medieval mystery plays from Coventry, West Midlands, England, and are perhaps best known as the source of the "Coventry Carol". Two plays from the original cycle are extant having been copied from the now lost original manuscript in the early 19th century. [1]
Medieval Imaginations: literature and visual culture in the Middle Ages; Tewkesbury's Millennia of Mummers' Heritage kept alive - United Kingdom Archived 22 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine; Texts: The Towneley (Wakefield) Cycle in Middle English. Available from Michigan or Virginia [dead link ] The York Cycle in Middle English.
Meijer, Reinder (1971), Literature of the Low Countries: A Short History of Dutch Literature in the Netherlands and Belgium, New York: Twayne Publishers, pp. 55– 57, 62, ISBN 978-9024721009; Takahashi, Genji (1953), A Study of Everyman with Special Reference to the Source of its Plot, Ai-iku-sha, pp. 33– 39, OCLC 8214306
A study estimated the loss and survival of precious artefacts and narratives from different parts of Europe.
An exception is the productions of the Lords of Misrule, a dramatic group [46] composed of students and recent graduates of the Department of Medieval Studies at the University of York. [47] Their presentations use authentic Middle English both in the words used and in their pronunciation. They have regularly contributed to one of the waggon ...
Within the Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama, Christina M. Fitzgerald and John T. Sebastian find it important to note, "the quotation marks placed around the name 'Wakefield Master' are thus to be taken to indicate that the ascription of authorship is the product of convention, rather than proven fact.