A play is an important piece of art as viewed by an audience. A script is a basis for a play by which a playwright tries to convey a concept. A script has many elements such as a plot, character, music and actions that are conveyed through two means known as dialogue as well as didascalic. Many medieval dramatic performances display biblical or moral stories that could be performed through amateur townspeople as well as run through a pageant master who could supervise the elaborate cycle plays.
Playwrights in medieval theatre display that income can depend on producing new manuscripts that aim at the public audience often and selling those scripts to acting companies. A popular playwright aims at selling a play than aiming at creating a work of long-term art like in the modern age. The uses of farce could contribute to the modern theatre as it allows the author as well as the actors to ridicule as well as criticize their superiors in churches or in society, without vengeance. This transition in the future theatres such as Shakespeare, who applies the use of farce easily.
At this time, the church services were conducted in Latin, which was not comprehended by the majority of the congregation. Most congregations could not read and lacked the experience on the Bible or its stories. Handling an illiterate as well as a pagan audience, the church began to dramatize The Bible to give religious meaning to their congregation. Dramatic readings were turned into short performances which later turned into full performances outside the church. Tropes were included in the course of a church service. The services could be interrupted to add dramatic elements to biblical events, for instance, during Easter as well as Christmas.
After the dark age of abolishing theatre in Europe, it is re-introduced as a way of conducting doctrinal teaching through the same church that did abolish it centuries before. This is due to the church theatre that portray passion as well as morality plays which lead to a significantly popular theatrical condition in England till the Puritan rule came to close all houses of entertainment.
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