Since the end of the nineteenth century literary critics have generally acknowledged Paul Rebhun as one of the best dramatists--perhaps the best who wrote in German during the sixteenth century. They see him as the first German dramatic artist in an era when theology was more important than dramatic structure in the production of theatrical experiences. Astonishingly, his exalted reputation rests solely on his Ein Geistlich spiel von der Gotfurchtigen und keuschen Frawen Susannen, gantz lustig und fruchtbarlich zu lesen (1536; translated as A Miracle Play about the God-fearing and Chaste Lady Susanna, for Entertaining and Profitable Reading, 1992), his first published work and one of only two plays he wrote during his lifetime. His second drama, Ein hochzeit spiel auff die Hochzeit zu Cana Galileae (A Wedding Play about the Marriage at Cana in Galilee, 1538), is not as accomplished dramatically as its predecessor: the wine miracle does not lend...