Introducing the Medieval Mystery Plays: Guest Lecture by Professor Christina Fitzgerald
This talk is free and open to all. The event will take place on Notre Dame's campus, and location details will be announced soon.
Mystery plays were a popular form of publicly-staged drama in the Middle Ages, involving town guilds and other groups across Europe acting out cycles of Biblical narratives, from Creation to Last Judgement and everything in between. As Notre Dame prepares to stage its own Medieval Mystery Cycle in April, come learn about the roots of this fascinating tradition from guest lecturer, Professor Christina Fitzgerald.
Christina M. Fitzgerald is Professor of English at the University of Toledo, Ohio, specializing in medieval literature. As an expert on medieval drama, Prof. Fitzgerald is the author of a book on The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture (2007), co-editor of The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama (2012) with John T. Sebastian, and editor of The York Corpus Christi Play: Selected Pageants (2018). She has experience bringing medieval drama to life through classroom projects and as a consultant for the 2025 York Plays in Toronto.
Funding & Support
This guest lecture is made possible with funding from Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute.
The Notre Dame Medieval Mystery Cycle is a partner program of the 2027 Notre Dame Arts Biennial and is supported with funding from the Notre Dame Arts Initiative.
Preview image: University of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 21v (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Originally published at artsbiennial.nd.edu.