Medieval DramaMedieval Drama is a textbook, designed to be used by A level and undergraduate students of theatre and drama. It is divided into two major areas, mystery cycles and morality plays, and it examines the plays from a performance perspective. The book makes special reference to those texts contained within selections of plays which can be readily obtained by students, including A.C.Cawley's Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (Dent). The staging conventions of pageant waggon performance, place and scaffold playing and the drama of the Hall are explored in relation to the cultural context of the medieval period. |
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Page 100
... castle allegories was Bishop Grossteste's Le Chasteau d'Amour , where the allegory involves many of the forces which also appear in The Castle of Perseverance . Both are bounded by a ditch or moat and both castles are involved in ...
... castle allegories was Bishop Grossteste's Le Chasteau d'Amour , where the allegory involves many of the forces which also appear in The Castle of Perseverance . Both are bounded by a ditch or moat and both castles are involved in ...
Page 113
... Castle of Perseverance and is defended within by the Seven Virtues . The next movement is the central action of the play , the assault on the castle by the vices to retrieve Mankind . The Good and Bad Angels observe the scene ...
... Castle of Perseverance and is defended within by the Seven Virtues . The next movement is the central action of the play , the assault on the castle by the vices to retrieve Mankind . The Good and Bad Angels observe the scene ...
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... castle in the middle of the place as he replies : ' Al schalt thou haue al redy , lo ' ( 1. 2775 ) , since he needs to obtain a castle which does not have an incumbent tenant , as the scaffolds in the outer area have . The pair move ...
... castle in the middle of the place as he replies : ' Al schalt thou haue al redy , lo ' ( 1. 2775 ) , since he needs to obtain a castle which does not have an incumbent tenant , as the scaffolds in the outer area have . The pair move ...
Contents
PARTI MYSTERY PLAYS | 3 |
Everyman and other Morality Plays | 97 |
The Place | 108 |
Copyright | |
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Medieval Drama Christine Richardson,Colette Rausch,Jackie Johnston,Leigh A. Payne No preview available - 1991 |
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A. C. Cawley Abel Play Abel's actors allegory Angel appear audience audience's biblical Cain and Abel Cain's Castle of Perseverance characters Chester play Christ Christian contrast Corpus Christi plays costumes Coventry Cross Crucifixion Crucifixion Play cycle plays demonstrate Devils didactic ditch EETS effect Elizabethan entertainment episode Everyman fifteenth century God's guilds Hell Interludes Last Judgement Last Judgement Play liturgical liturgical drama London Mankind Medieval Drama Medieval English Drama medieval period Medieval Theatre Mercers Mercy Mischief Morality plays Mummers Mystery Cycles Mystery plays N-Town Cycle N-Town play Noah offer pageant wagon Passion sequence performance physical play world playing area popular possible recognise records reference religious represent response role salvation scaffolds Secunda Pastorum Shepherds Play shows social soldiers souls space spectators speech spiritual stage directions survived theatre tithe Titivillus Towneley Towneley-Wakefield Cycle Towneley-Wakefield play tradition Tudor vices Wakefield Wakefield Master York Cycle