_The Passion of our Lord dramatised._--Busby, in his _History of Music_,
vol. i. p. 249., says:
"It has been very generally supposed, that the manner of reciting and
singing in the theatres formed the original model of the church
service; an idea sanctioned by the fact, that the Passion of our
Saviour was dramatised by the _early_ priests."
What authority is there for this statement?