Staging Faith: East Anglian Drama in the Later Middle Ages

East Anglian dramatic manuscripts record a vigorous, long lived, and spectacular theater that flourished in the late Middle Ages. Staging Faith explores the relationship between production methods, dramatic structure, iconography, and the medieval reception of these plays. It explores how different modes of production resulted in types of dramatic organization and how varied playwrights exploited the symbolic potential of various settings, props and dramatic actions.