 These included the "Beheading of Johne the Baptist" and the "Historie of Dyonisius the Tyraonne", which were performed at Dundee.David Lyndsay (c. 1486 –1555), diplomat and the head of the Lyon Court, was a prolific poet and dramatist.He produced an interlude at Linlithgow Palace for the king and queen thought to be a version of his play "The Thrie Estaitis" in 1540, which satirised the corruption of church and state, and which is the only complete play to survive from before the Reformation.