This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama.

Introduction Part 1. English Scriptural Plays 1. Faith, Reason and the Prophets' dialogue in the Coventry Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors 2. Playing Pentecost: Transformation and Texts 3. Lament and Elegy in Scriptural Drama: Englishing the Planctus Mariae 4. The End of the World in Medieval English Religious Drama 5. The Early English Passion Play 6. Medieval English Religious Plays as Early Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Theology: the Case Against Part 2. Drama and Poetry 7. Dunbar's The Golden Targe: A Chaucerian Masque 8. 'He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye'? 9. Drama: Sacred and Secular Part 3. Revivals, Survivals and Audiences - Mostly about Spain 10. La Festa D'Elx: The Festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, Elche (Alicante) 11. Elche Again: The Venida and the Semana Santa 12. The Festa d'Elx: Civic Devotion, Display and Identity 13. Corpus Christi, Valencia, 1993 14. Corpus Christi: Valencia 15 Confraternities and Civic Ceremonial: the Siena Palio 16. Twentieth Century Medieval Drama Revivals and the Universities Part 4. Ideology and Performance 17. Spatial semantics and the medieval theatre 18. MINORITY PLAYS: Two Interludes for Edward VI 19. Rules of Exchange in Medieval Plays and Play Manuscripts