Medieval religious literature also appeared in dramatic form. Mystery Plays were popular from the tenth to the sixteenth centur The famous oberammergau Passion Play is one of that genre. Their themes were biblical; they were performed ou movable stages in the towns. Their purpose was to edify and teach the illiterate people they also entertained through the spectacle itself and the tricks and dialogues of the devil. The Morality Plays arose in the fourteenth century and were sermons in dramatic