Welcome to the WWW pages of the York Doomsday Project. This has grown from a multimedia computer project on the fifteenth-century York Mystery Plays, arguably the most famous of the cycles, into a research project exploring all aspects of the plays and their various social, intellectual, religious, and theatrical contexts. It also aims to present the surviving evidence around the original ...

Official website of Chester's Mystery Plays ...

The mystery and miracle plays of the middle ages developed out of liturgical drama and were the early forerunners of mainstream English drama.

Back to original Reporter story Reporter 452, 22 May 2000 The Mystery Plays 25 Years On Richard Rastall Twenty-five years ago, on 17-18 May 1975, an extraordinary event took place in the University precinct: a performance of the greater part of the York cycle of mystery plays, performed at three playing-places, or stations, over a two-day period. At the time, most people regarded it as a special ...

Medieval mystery plays in the City of London ...