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mystery play

Medieval religious drama based on stories from the Bible. Mystery plays were performed around the time of church festivals, reaching their height in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. A whole cycle running from the Creation to the Last Judgement was performed in separate scenes on mobile wagons by various town guilds, usually on the festival of Corpus Christi in midsummer.



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Each had made his choice; one, the bonfire; another, the maypole; another, the mystery play.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
The Mystery Plays seem to have reached their greatest popularity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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