The following kinds of dramatic works are found in the Middle Ages:

• Liturgical -- part of the church service, usually a trope to an Introit.
• Chanson de Geste -- songs of epic deeds, formulaic musical storytelling in the vernacular.
• Pastorelles -- countryside shepherd associations later; love and poetry, a heroic rescue of a damsel, such as Robin and Marion.
• Morality Plays -- religious but not liturgical; good vs. evil, often with personifications of such abstractions, teaching a moral lesson.