James Armstrong, Playwright

Along with publishing Theatre Notebook , the Society for Theatre Research always sends out one book a year to all of its members. This year,...

In medieval drama , Hellmouths frequently appeared on stage. A mouth opening up into Hell appears, for instance, in the illustration of a Pa...

There are various ways one can perform theatre in a pandemic. Blessed Unrest was able to perform an outdoor production of Battle of Angels  ...

It has become fashionable to discount the connections between liturgical dramas of the middle ages and the outdoor mystery plays that develo...

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, which was inspired by a vision by the 13th-century canoness Juliana of Liège. The solemnity, celebrate...

As the middle ages in England came to a close, the Plantagenet dynasty split into two factions: the House of Lancaster and the House of York...

On this Ash Wednesday, I want to write about the medieval drama   The Play of Adam . Scholars often cite this anonymous play as a half-way p...

In R.S. Hawker's short story "The Botathen Ghost," there is a comment that a Cornish clergyman "must needs have been arti...

The adventures of Till Eulenspiegel first appeared in German in 1515. They tell the life story of a trickster who is constantly mocking eve...

Early Spanish Drama During the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain asserted its power across the globe. It dominated Europe, conquered much of ...

Liturgical Drama Though early Christians opposed the theatre, their rituals were themselves dramatic. At the heart of Christian religious ...

On Good Friday, I decided to read the scourging play from the Wakefield cycle of medieval mystery plays. The heart of the play is written ...