This fifteenth-century cycle, edited by J. O. Halliwell for the Shakespeare Society in 1841 and now usually called the N-Town plays, dramatises the Bible story in Middle English verse: the Creation and Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah’s flood, Abraham’s sacrifice, the life of the Virgin, the raising of Lazarus, the Passion and on to Doomsday.
An essential text of early English drama for students and lovers of medieval theatre. Download the free EPUB.