"Starting with the Creation and ending with the general Judgment, the medieval playwrights have dramatized the most significant scriptural events in which they believed God's purpose for mankind is revealed. Everything that has gone before has prepared us for the end, and so it is not surprising to find that the Judgment is full of echoes of earlier pageants. The Father of heaven has sent His Son to redeem Adam's race and to bridge the gulf between Himself and sinful mankind. On the day of doom those who have accepted Christ will be saved, and those who have rejected Him will be damned. This is the terrifyingly simple end of the long troubled story of man's relations with God" (Cawley, p 188). I feel that this sums up so well what The Judgment is all about. Even back in the medieval times the creators of the York pageant made a way for 48 plays to come together in a large festival of theatre. It's a great feat and very well done. This play can be looked at as the big finale of all of these 48 plays and it even includes some singing of the Angels.
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