![]() ![]() ![]() Like those for the Cornish plays, it is circular. ![]() Apart from these five, the only other other plan of a British medieval theatre that has survived is of 'The Castle of Perseverance'. In the manuscript of the Cornish Cycle, there is a plan of the theatre for each of the three days and there are two similar ones in 'St. The last of the three, 'The Creation of the World' is the first day of another Biblical play. Meriasek') that is the only full-length medieval saint's play to have survived in the literature of Great Britain. Next is 'Buenans Meriasek' ('The Life of St. The oldest of the three surviving manuscripts is the Cornish Cycle - performed on three consecutive days - that is probably the earliest surviving British drama script. In this book, Sydney Higgins shows why this is a mistaken and ill-informed view. The important and rich collection of medieval plays from Cornwall has, in the past, been all but ignored by the majority of drama historians and critics. ![]()
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