Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater: Crash Course Theater #9

When last we saw Theater, it was just making its way back in the West, by sneaking a little drama into the Easter mass. In today’s episode, we’re talking about Hrotsvitha, the cool 10th-century nun from Lower Saxony who was maybe the first playwright of the new era of theater. She wrote comedies with a moral message and influenced future heavy hitters like Hildegard of Bingen.