The flourishing of Medieval Drama

In the 15th century it can be see the flourishing of medieval drama developed from liturgical ceremonies. After music was introduced into churches in the 6th century and words were later fitted to the melodies, and a dramatic dialogue began to emerge. 

Little by little other effects were added and all of this produced an evolution from liturgical drama to Miracle and Mystery Plays.

Mystery Plays tells about Gospel events while Miracles talks episodes from the lives of Saints. Miracle are grouped into four cycles adapted from the Bible, now know by the names of the towns where they were perfomed: Chester, York,Coventry and Wakefield.  

In this period Latin was replaced by the vernacular English and the perfomances inside churches became more and more difficult because of the growing size of the audience. So the plays were removed from the churches and began to be perfomed in the church courtyard or in open spaces of the town. These were represented on a pegeant, a carriage on six wheels in the form of a small house. 

The second great literary product of the time, the Morality Play, were focused on the conflict between good and evil. Also they gave a lesson that people should be learn. The best Morality Play is Everyman. Then Moralities were replaced by Interludes very brevity, their rare use of allegory, the introduction of humor or satire. The best example of Interlude is The Four P's by John Heywood.