Medieval Liturgical Drama: From Easter Tropes to Parish Mystery Cycles (c. 900–1600)

1. Easter tropes introduce dialogue at the tomb

   Jan 1, 900Labels: Quem quaeritis, Monastic liturgy

   • Britannica
   • Regularis Concordia

2. Regularis Concordia codifies the Quem quaeritis

   Jan 1, 973Labels: Regularis Concordia, English monastery

   • Regularis Concordia

3. Liturgical drama expands beyond Easter into other feasts

   Jan 1, 1050Labels: Feast plays, Church staging

   • Fleury Playbook
   • Princeton MS

4. Play of Adam demonstrates vernacular turn in sacred drama

   Jan 1, 1150Labels: Play of, Vernacular drama

   • Play of Adam
   • UVic Thesis

5. Fleury Playbook preserves a major Latin play collection

   Jan 1, 1200Labels: Fleury Playbook, Monastic manuscript

   • Fleury Playbook
   • BRLSI

6. Jean Bodel’s Saint Nicholas play marks non-liturgical drama

   Jan 1, 1200Labels: Jean Bodel, Le Jeu

   • Saint Nicolas

7. Corpus Christi becomes a major civic performance occasion

   Jan 1, 1264Labels: Corpus Christi, Civic ritual

   • Britannica York

8. Chester cycle develops as a multi-day biblical sequence

   Jan 1, 1375Labels: Chester cycle, Multi-day cycle

   • Britannica Chester

9. York’s Corpus Christi plays documented as a cycle

   Jan 1, 1376Labels: York cycle, Guild pageants

   • York Plays
   • History York

10. N-Town cycle compiled as a portable mystery play collection

    Jan 1, 1468Labels: N-Town cycle, Portable cycle

    • Britannica N Town
    • Cambridge Core

11. English Reformation disrupts Corpus Christi play traditions

    Jan 1, 1548Labels: English Reformation, Corpus Christi

    • York Plays

12. York mystery plays suppressed amid religious enforcement

    Jan 1, 1569Labels: York suppression, Religious enforcement

    • York Plays

13. Chester’s 1575 performance becomes a late endpoint

    Jan 1, 1575Labels: Chester 1575, Performance scrutiny

    • Historic UK
    • Routledge Chester

14. Wakefield/Towneley tradition faces restrictions and ends

    Jan 1, 1576Labels: Wakefield Towneley, Tradition end

    • Wakefield Plays