A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry By the Trading Companies of That City
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780548036150
Subjects: Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; Performing Arts
First sentence: IT is remarkable that while the history of the English Stage has been investigated with a perseverance and minuteness of research, which scarcely leaves an expectation of any additional facts or illustrations remaining to be discovered; our Religious Dramas or Mysteries, the unquestionable groundwork of the Stage, have been treated in a very superficial and unsatisfactory manner.