Medieval Theatre

Mansion

500

500 AD - 1300 AD
Mansion, also called House, scenic device used in medieval theatrical staging. Individual mansions represented different locales in biblical stories and in scenes from the life of Christ as performed in churches. A Mansion consisted of a small booth containing a stage with corner posts supporting a canopy and decorated curtains and often a chair and props to be used by the actors in the scene.
(https://www.britannica.com/art/mansion-theatre)

Folk Plays

900

900 AD - 1500 AD
Generally rural theatre and pageantry based on folk traditions and local history.
(https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Folk+play)

Miracle Plays

1000

1000 AD
Miracle Plays, also called Saint's Plays, were plays dedicated to the lives of various saints, rather than Biblical events. The Miracle Play originated to enhance the liturgical services, and were later separated from the church.
(https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/mystery-and-morality-plays/#:~:text=Miracle%20Plays%2C%20also%20called%20Saint's,later%20separated%20from%20the%20church.)

Guilds

1066

1066 AD
Presented Bible dramas in England. Guilds were a professional association, trade union, cartel, and a secret society.
(https://www.preceden.com/timelines/168317-theatre-history--medieval-era)

Pageant

1300

1300 AD - 1500 AD
Pageants were a form of procession, traditionally associated with both secular and religious rituals and had a narrative structure. They were the celebration of Corpus Christi. (https://www.preceden.com/timelines/168317-theatre-history--medieval-era)

Mystery Plays

1376

1376 AD
Mystery play, one of three principal kinds of vernacular drama in Europe during the Middle Ages (along with the miracle play and the morality play). The mystery plays, usually representing biblical subjects, developed from plays presented in Latin by churchmen on church premises and depicted such subjects as the Creation, Adam and Eve, the murder of Abel, and the Last Judgment. (https://www.britannica.com/art/mystery-play)

Morality Plays

1400

1400 AD - 1600 AD
Morality play, also called morality, an allegorical drama popular in Europe especially during the 15th and 16th centuries, in which the characters personify moral qualities (such as charity or vice) or abstractions (as death or youth) and in which moral lessons are taught. (https://www.britannica.com/art/morality-play-dramatic-genre)

Dumb Shows

1562

1562 AD - 1642 AD
Dumbshow, also dumb show or dumb-show, is a traditional term for pantomime in drama, actions presented by actors onstage without spoken dialogue. It is similar to the masque. The term is most often used in regard to medieval drama and English Renaissance theatre, though it can apply in other pertinent contexts as well, as with the dammari pantomime of Kabuki theater. (https://theatrelinks.com/dumb-show/)