From ca. 1300 a new genre developed in European literature, Neo-Latin drama. Building on medieval drama, vernacular theatre and classical drama, it spread aroun

'From ca. 1300 a new genre developed in European literature, Neo-Latin drama. Building on medieval drama, vernacular theatre and classical drama, it spread arou

Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significanc

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as As

Follows the Manuscript (MS. R.17.10) in Trinity College, Cambridge. This unpublished play, performed at Emmanuel College probably around 1626, is a late example