The Plays

The York Corpus Christi Plays, are a cycle of forty-eight Middle English mystery plays, or pageants, which begin with sacred history from the creation and continue to the Last Judgment. Traditionally presented on the feast day of Corpus Christi (a movable feast occurring the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, between May 23 and June 24), they were performed in the city of York, from the middle of the fourteenth century until 1569.