"Christ and the Leper" from the "Chester Cycle" (ca. 1531–75)

Kurt Schreyer teaches courses on Shakespeare and early English drama at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His interests extend to a wide variety of genres and texts across the traditional medieval/Renaissance disciplinary divide, from Chaucer to Milton, and from epic and romance to devotional lyric. His book, Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft: Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage, published by Cornell University Press, demonstrates the central importance of stage properties, technologies, and theatrical practices from pre-Reformation religious drama to Shakespeare’s stagecraft.