Download or read book The Mary Play from the N. Town Manuscript written by Peter Meredith and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mary Play is a beautiful and engaging piece of late medieval stagecraft. It is rich in music and spectacle, and is the only English play which deals with the parents of the Virgin Mary and with her early life; the only play which centers on a prayer, the Ave Maria; the only play which in its devotional intensity reflects the central concerns of the late fifteenth century lay piety.