_Everyman_, the oftenest revived and best known of them, if not the best, is very typical of the class.

They had their influences, less profound than that of the miracles, on the full drama.

It is said the "Vice"-- unregeneracy commonly degenerated into comic relief--is the ancestor of the fool in Shakespeare, but more likely both are successive creations of a dynasty of actors who practised the unchanging and immemorial art of the clown.

The general structure of _Everyman_ and some of its fellows, heightened and made more dramatic, gave us Marlowe's _Faustus_.

There perhaps the influence ends.
The rise of a professional class of actors brought one step nearer the full growth of drama.