Mediaeval Stage

E. K. Chambers wrote this study of how drama in medieval Europe, especially religious plays and interludes, took shape and changed over time. It examines the leading works of the period in close detail. Readers are also given long appendices on the music, dance and costume that accompanied these performances.

The book suits people who study theatre history, those who work in medieval studies, and general readers with a taste for early literature. Chambers, an English scholar, approached the subject from a historian's standpoint, and the book is grounded in the English stage.

Its breadth makes it a reference that scholars return to for the staging and texts of medieval performance.