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 36
... accepting that God deserves the best of their produce since it is through God's grace that they have both best and worst . When Cain nonchalantly says that he will seek out his worst sheaf of corn which God can accept or not as far as ...
... accepting that God deserves the best of their produce since it is through God's grace that they have both best and worst . When Cain nonchalantly says that he will seek out his worst sheaf of corn which God can accept or not as far as ...
Page 70
... accept any kind of responsibility for what they have done . Like the Shepherds as ordinary representatives of Common Man to whom the possibility of salvation is first offered , the soldiers or torturers are representatives of ordinary ...
... accept any kind of responsibility for what they have done . Like the Shepherds as ordinary representatives of Common Man to whom the possibility of salvation is first offered , the soldiers or torturers are representatives of ordinary ...
Page 86
... accepted that gift or not , to see if that suffering has been in vain . The Chester play heightens this climactic ... accept the terms of Christ's sacrifice will come to bliss in the Judgement which now follows . The representatives ...
... accepted that gift or not , to see if that suffering has been in vain . The Chester play heightens this climactic ... accept the terms of Christ's sacrifice will come to bliss in the Judgement which now follows . The representatives ...
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