The Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison has taken the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles of the Mystery plays and woven them into three separate and infinitely varied forms of story-telling and of English life. THE NATIVITY begins with the Creation and ends with the Birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. THE PASSION takes up the story from the baptism of Jesus to the Crucifixion. DOOMSDAY traces the final part of the Bible from the Resurrection to the Last Judgement.
