Context: The end of medieval drama came about due to a number of factors, including the weakening power of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation and the banning of religious plays in many countries. Elizabeth I forbid all religious plays in 1558 and the great cycle plays had been silenced by the 1580s. Similarly, religious plays were banned in the Netherlands in 1539, the Papal States in 1547 and in Paris in 1548. The abandonment of these plays destroyed the international theatre that had thereto existed and forced each country to develop its own form of drama. It also allowed dramatists to turn to secular subjects and the reviving interest in Greek and Roman theatre provided them with the perfect opportunity.

Question: What was banned that led to the demise of medieval drama?
Answer: religious plays

Question: In what year did Elizabeth I ban religious plays?
Answer: 1558

Question: In what year were religious plays banned in the Netherlands?
Answer: 1539

Question: What types of subjects did dramatists turn to when religious plays were banned?
Answer: secular

Question: Where were religious plays banned in 1548?
Answer: Paris

Question: What wasn't banned that led to the demise of medieval drama?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In what year did Elizabeth II ban religious plays?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In what year weren't religious plays banned in the Netherlands?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What types of subjects didn't dramatists turn to when religious plays were banned?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Where were religious plays banned in 1584?
Answer: Unanswerable