[_Bibliographical Note._—The English moralities are well treated from a literary point of view in the books by Ten Brink, Ward, Creizenach, Pollard, Collier, Klein, Symonds, Bates, Jusserand, and Courthope, named in the bibliographical note to Chapter xxi, and also in the Introduction to A. Brandl, _Quellen des weltlichen Dramas in England vor Shakespeare_ (1898). Some texts not easily available elsewhere are given in the same book; others are in Dodsley’s _A Select Collection of Old English Plays_ (ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1874-6), vol. i, and J. M. Manly, _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama_ (1897), vol. i. Extracts are given by Pollard. Lists both of popular moralities and of moral interludes will be found in Appendix X. The French plays of a similar type are dealt with by L. Petit de Julleville, _La Comédie et les Mœurs en France au Moyen Âge_ (1886) and _Répertoire du Théâtre comique en France au Moyen Âge_ (1886).—On puppet-plays, C. Magnin, _Histoire des Marionnettes en Europe_ (1852), and A. Dieterich, _Pulcinella_ (1897), may be consulted. The traditional text of the stock English play is printed, with illustrations by G. Cruikshank, in J. P. Collier, _Punch and Judy_ (1870). English pageants at the Corpus Christi feast and at royal entries are discussed by C. Davidson, _English Mystery Plays_ (1892), § xvii, and Sir J. B. Paul, in _Scottish Review_, xxx (1897), 217, and the corresponding French _mystères mimés_ by L. Petit de Julleville, _Les Mystères_ (1880).] I have endeavoured to trace from its ritual origins the full development of that leading and characteristic type of mediaeval drama, the miracle-play. I now propose to deal, very briefly, with certain further outgrowths which, in the autumn of the Middle Ages, sprang from the miracle-play stock; and a final book will endeavour to bring together the scattered threads of this discursive inquiry, and to touch upon that transformation of the mediaeval into the humanist type of drama, which prepared the way for the great Elizabethan stage.