The clergy encouraged the staging of mystery plays from around 1350. Performed in English these taught the Christian stories to the people who could not read, nor understand the Latin used in church. The plays were locally written and produced and those from only four towns survive: Wakefield, Chester, Coventry and York.
The plays were suppressed in the Reformation but in recent years some have been resurrected.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Chester Players
Actor-manager and playwright. His father of the same name was also in show business. Often partnered Edmund Payne on stage (on Grossmith's right knee in this photo).
Actress and artist's model. Born Ada Alice Pullen in New Cross. Her theatrical career took her to New York, but she had little success there. As a model, she became the muse of Frederick Leighton, ...
Created when the lease ran out for The Theatre in 1597 so the building was dismantled and rebuilt across the Thames as The Globe. Closed by the Puritans and pulled down in 1644. The reconstruction...
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