This semester we covered many periods and learned about theatrical life, playwrights and genres of plays which were all very interesting and I learned a lot. There are only two eras that I was more interested in discussing for my dissertation: the medieval period and the Elizabethan period. So I decided to discuss the impact of theater from the medieval period on theater from the Elizabethan period. I found that Elizabethan theater was heavily influenced by medieval theater in many ways, including: the influence of play types, the influence of concepts in different genres, the performance aspect itself as well as the staging scene and religious and political controversies. Throughout my article I will discuss these influences from the Medieval period on the Elizabethan period in more detail. Medieval theater refers to the theater of the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and approximately the beginning of the Renaissance. the medieval theater of the 15th century AD covers all the dramas produced in Europe during this millennial period. English Renaissance theater, also known as modern English theater, refers to the theater of England, largely based in London, which performed between 1567 and 1642. To understand the transition from medieval theater to Elizabethan theater, we must first understand medieval theater. covered a variety of genres including liturgical drama, mystery and morality plays, farces, and masquerades. Medieval dramas were mostly very religious and moral in their themes, setting, and traditions. So, two of the most important game genres were morality and mystery. The mystery plays were stories from the Bible turned into performances and were heavily religious...... middle of paper ...... which were moving stages that were often transported through major cities but the size of the stage itself on the carts was very small. Most plays could be seen in towns, in the halls of the nobility and in the rounds of amphitheaters. All medieval stage productions were temporary and had to be moved once the performance was over. This differed from the Elizabethan era in the way it presented various actions on stage across time and space and featured a combination of detailed realism, but as later medieval theater developed, dramas were not more strictly liturgical. This allowed artists to open the public's imagination without fear that religious traditions would trap their minds. So they improved their costumes, their accessories and their characters. The Elizabethan era introduced a new way of recruiting their actors for the theater, they developed troupes of theater companies..