The Wakefield Mystery Plays

New York: Doubleday, 1962. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Faint edge wear. 1962 Hard Cover. 552 pp. Four hundred years ago the medieval mystery plays, presented each year in various English villages to teach the stories of the Bible to the illiterate population, were the great classic English dramas. Queen Elizabeth I banned these plays because she considered them Roman Catholic, and since then the texts have been available only to scholars.