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 79
... Chester details come mainly from the sixteenth century.1 From the few details which can be gleaned from fifteenth - century records it would appear that up until c . 1519-20 Chester had a play performed after the Corpus Christi ...
... Chester details come mainly from the sixteenth century.1 From the few details which can be gleaned from fifteenth - century records it would appear that up until c . 1519-20 Chester had a play performed after the Corpus Christi ...
Page 81
... Chester historian and author of the Polychronicon.3 The Brevary also lists the plays and the guilds responsible for them as well as showing the division of the plays over three days . The ... Chester plays end Chester Last Judgement Play 81.
... Chester historian and author of the Polychronicon.3 The Brevary also lists the plays and the guilds responsible for them as well as showing the division of the plays over three days . The ... Chester plays end Chester Last Judgement Play 81.
Page 162
... Chester Plays ' , Leeds Studies in English , NS , vĂ ( 1974 ) , 63â94 and ' The History and Development of the Chester Cycle ' , Modern Philology , 75 ( 1977â8 ) , 219â 46 and REED Chester , ed . Clopper ( Toronto and Manchester , 1979 ) ...
... Chester Plays ' , Leeds Studies in English , NS , vĂ ( 1974 ) , 63â94 and ' The History and Development of the Chester Cycle ' , Modern Philology , 75 ( 1977â8 ) , 219â 46 and REED Chester , ed . Clopper ( Toronto and Manchester , 1979 ) ...
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