Cabinet 12: Medieval Drama

Celebrating the festival of Corpus Christi, the York cycle of plays is first recorded as performed in 1376, although the only surviving manuscript of the plays dates from the third quarter of the fifteenth century. While the subject matter of these plays is the same as the Towneley plays, the York plays were each written and produced collectively by one of the town’s guilds.

The York Plays: A Facsimile of British Library MS Additional 35290, edited by Richard Beadle and Peter Meredith (Leeds: Leeds Texts and Monographs, 1983) Central PR 1260 YM2 1983