The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.

Sixteen hours of thirty-two rhymed playlets compressed into two two-hour dramas.

The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.

THE STORY: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: We are going to tell you an old and familiar story. But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels t

A study of medieval drama, divided into two parts: part I, Mystery Plays, is the work of Christine Richardson and part II, Moralities and Interludes, is the work of Jackie Johnston. The general introduction was written jointly.