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Timeline of plays 950s - 1580s
Quem Quaeritis(c. 950, from St. Gall, Switzerland)
Facsimile: Tropary, p. 111, Cod. Sang. 484 – St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek
A Latin trope sung during Easter mass.
trope = sung dialogue in the Christian mass, as part of the liturgical text.
quem quaeritis = whom do you seek? (From Mark 16.5-6)
Sung by two halves of the choir. No author know. Biblical episode.
Reference: Bevington, Medieval Drama, p. 26.
Visitatio Sepulchri (c. 970, from St. Ethelwold, Winchester)
Le Mystère d'Adam (c. 1159)
Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas (early 12th century)
Dame Sirith (ms. from c. 1275)
Interludium de Clerico et Puella (c. 1300)
The Pride of Life (c. 1350, extant ms. form 1st half of 15th c.)
York Corpus Christi Plays (first mentioned in 1376, extant text from 1463-77)
The Castle of Perseverance (c. 1400-1425)
John Lydgate's mummings (1424-30)
Occupation and Idleness (mid 15th c.; in Ms. 'The Winchester Dialogues')
Mankind (c. 1464)
Composition of Wakefield pageants in Towneley cycle (mid-late 15th c.)
Everyman (end of 15th. c)
Goodly Interlude of Nature (end of 15th c.) by Henry Medwall
Fulgens and Lucrece (1490-1501; ca. 1497 in Styan) by Henry Medwall
Mary Magdalen and St Paul (c.1500? in the Digby ms.)
An Enterlude of Welth, and Helth (early 16th c.)
Magnyficence (c. 1515-18, or 1519-1502; printed 1529-33) by John Skelton
An Satyre of the thrie Estaits, in commendation of vertew and vitvperation of vyce (c. 1540) by David Lyndsay
Wit and Science (ca. 1530-48) by John Redford
The Play of the Weather (printed 1533) by John Heywood
The Play called the four P.P. (printed 1543-7) by John Heywood
King John (written before 1548) by John Bale
A New Interlude for Children to Play Named Jack Juggler (prob, wr. 1550s)
Ralph Roister Doister (ca. 1553) by Nicholas Udall
Gammer Gurton's Needle (ca. 1553, pub. 1575)
Gorboduc, (Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex) (acted 1561) by Norton and Sackville
A Lamentable Tragedie, mixed full of pleasant mirth, containing the life of Cambises King of Percia (1569) by Thomas Preston
Supposes (Gray's Inn, 1566) by George Gascoine
1580 Last (unsuccessful) attempt to stage the York Corpus Christi Plays