CHAPTER II.

I. Ancient Plays--II. Miracle Plays, Dramas from Scripture, &c. continued several Days--III. The Coventry Play--IV. Mysteries described--V. How enlivened--VI. Moralities described--The Fool in Plays, whence derived--VII. Secular Plays--VIII. Interludes--IX. Chaucer's Definition of the Tragedies of his Time--X. Plays performed in Churches--XI. Cornish Miracle Plays--XII. Itinerant Players, their evil Characters--XIII. Court-Plays--XIV. Play in honour of the Princess Mary's Marriage--XV. The Play of Hock Tuesday--XVI. Decline of Secular Plays--XVII. Origin of Puppet Plays--XVIII. Nature of the Performances--XIX. Giants and other Puppet Characters--XX. Puppet Plays superseded by Pantomimes--XXI. The modern Puppet-show Man--XXII. Moving Pictures described 150