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This book mainly studies the development and evolution process of British medieval drama. British medieval drama mainly had three development lines: the activities of professional actors for the purpose of making a living, the popular performances of the general public, and the dramatic church rituals. Church ritual dramas gradually developed into the three most popular drama types in the late Middle Ages: saint dramas, serial dramas, and moral dramas. At the end of the 15th century, religious dramas gradually declined and disappeared, interlude dramas gradually emerged, and British drama began to turn to Renaissance humanistic drama. This book combs out the development trajectory of British medieval drama, that is, the development process from early folk secular drama, church ritual drama, middle and late religious drama to episodic drama, and summarizes the basic rules of the development and evolution of British medieval drama, that is, whether the church and the official can educate the people to the maximum extent determine the survival and spread of drama.

This book is one of the "Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Popularization Series" (overseas edition), called "Studying Things to Learn". Its main content reflects the achievements and contributions made by ancient China in science and technology, economy and trade, transportation and communications, medicine and health, recreation and entertainment, etc. To human society. It reflects the breadth, depth and richness of Chinese traditional culture. Ancient China was a leader in many fields at that time, and many inventions and creations spread to other parts of the world, promoting social progress and making significant contributions to the progress of human civilization. This book has six chapters in total, with complete content, reasonable structure, standardized language, and clear description. In many chapters, this book presents the achievements of ancient China or famous historical figures in many aspects in the form of narrative stories. The form is vivid and rich, which can arouse great interest in reading.