Anonymous plays

Anonymous drama survives from medieval cycles and farce, written for performance in cultures that did not bill playwrights.

3 works.

Still unknown
Actio Curiosa
Date unrecorded · play
An anonymous seventeenth century Hungarian dramatic work. No author has been identified in the documented record.
Still unknown
La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin
Date unrecorded · play
The greatest French medieval farce, in which a trickster lawyer is out-tricked by a shepherd. Written around 1460 by an unknown playwright.
Still unknown
The Second Shepherds' Play
Date unrecorded · play
The masterpiece of English medieval drama, from the Wakefield cycle, written by an unnamed playwright scholars call the Wakefield Master.