York Cycle of Mystery Plays, The (48 parts)

York Cycle of Mystery Plays, The (48 parts)

    Author: Anon (‘The York Realist’)

    First Performance: Late 14th–15th c., York

    Published: 1915 (part), 1957 (all)

    Genre: Cycle of 48 mystery plays; Middle English verse

    Setting: Heaven and earth, from the Fall of Lucifer to the Last Judgement

    Cast: approx. 60m, 6f, many extras

The cycle stretches from the Creation to the end of time. Based on the evidence of one almost complete extant manuscript, the cycle probably comprised:

    (1) The Fall of Lucifer (the creation of evil);

    (2) The Creation (the beginning of the physical universe);

    (3) God Creates Adam and Eve (the creation of humankind);

    (4) Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (the idyll before ‘the Fall of Man’);

    (5) Man's Disobedience and...

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