Coventry Mystery Plays

The Coventry Mystery Plays, or Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants, are a cycle of medieval mystery plays from Coventry, West Midlands, England, and are perhaps best known as the source of the "Coventry Carol". Two plays from the original cycle are extant, having been copied from the now lost original manuscript in the early 19th century. Another, separate manuscript (BL MS Cotton Vespasian D.8) was initially titled the Ludus Coventriae by a 17th-century librarian who erroneously assumed it was a copy of the Coventry mystery plays. The collection within this manuscript is now more commonly known as the N-Town Plays and is thought to have originated in East Anglia.