A performance of the the Coventry Mystery Plays, or Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants, a cycle of medieval mystery plays from Coventry, West Midlands, England. Performances of the Coventry Plays are first recorded in a document of 1392–3, and continued for nearly two centuries; the young Shakespeare may have witnessed them before they were finally suppressed in 1579. Latterly the plays were performed in a version revised by one Robert Croo in 1534. In its fullest form the cycle comprised about ten plays, all on New Testament themes, though only two have survived to the present day.

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