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.
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.
MEDIVEAL THEATRE: OTHER RESOURCES
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.
Everyman - A synopsis of the best known of the morality plays of the Middle Ages.
Hrosvitha - A biography of the early Medieval dramatist.
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.