The anonymous, carly-fourteenth-century play The Day of Judgment is a complex medieval drama, with roles for ninety-four characters, and the sole surviving manuscript on which it is recorded is decorated with eighty-nine pictures depicting staging. The following plot summary includes themes. that were popular throughout medieval drama.

After an introductory sermon by Le Prescheur [the Preacher] we find Satan and his devils preparing to send one of them, disguised as an elegant youth, to seduce a woman of the tribe of Dan in Babylon. This devil, Angignars, speedily accomplishes his purpose and Antichrist is born of the union. The devils now begin instructing Antichrist in all their arts, and presently he is able to make the blind to see, to cure the leprous, revive the dead, and heap riches upon the poor. He readily wins over the Jews and grows so powerful...