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This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling `miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Works such as Chaucer's Miller's Tale , the York Passion Plays, the `Wakefield Master' plays and the Play of the Sacrament are discussed in detail.