A Common Stage

Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays: The Play of St. Nicholas , The Courtly Lad of Arras , The Boy and the Blind Man , The Play of the Bower , and The Play about Robin and about Marion . In A Common Stage , Carol Symes undertakes a cultural archeology of these artifacts, analyzing the processes by which a handful of entertainments were conceived, transmitted, received