English Mystery Plays

Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to their production and they were to influence later dramatists significantly

The grand design of the mystery plays was to celebrate the Christian story from The Fall of Lucifer to the Judgement Day, and this volume contains thirty-eight plays, forming in itself a composite cycle and including almost all the incidents common to the extant cycles