MEDIEVAL AND TUDOR DRAMA is an extensive anthology which presents theatrical works by playwrights from the time of Hrotsviths, a nun of the tenth century, through boisterous Tudor comedy and the origins of Elizabethan tragedy. It includes examples from early pagan drama, the Passion Play cycles, as well as the great Morality of the Middle Ages, EVERYMAN. John Heywood, the first English dramatist who stands out as an individual, is represented by his excellent comic "interlude", THE PLAY CALLED THE FOUR PP. Two rollicking comedies – RALPH ROISTER DOISTER and GAMMER GURTON’S NEEDLE – and Norton and Sackville’s noble progenitor of English tragedy, GORBODUC, round out this exceptional volume.