The mystery plays or Corpus Christi plays were performed from around the twelfth century to the late fifteen hundreds. The plays were a cycle, they were not performed as one continuous play in one single location, rather they were staged on wagons and these wagons moved through the town and they stopped at various locations. Each wagon performed one part of the whole cycle that is one play, a discrete entity that could be viewed …showed first 75 words of 2095 total…

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