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 14
... associated with the folk festivals , expectations of some kind of drama were already associated with the period . Initially the Corpus Christi Feast was celebrated with a Pro- cession through the streets of the town , carrying the Host ...
... associated with the folk festivals , expectations of some kind of drama were already associated with the period . Initially the Corpus Christi Feast was celebrated with a Pro- cession through the streets of the town , carrying the Host ...
Page 72
... associated immediacy for the audience of witnessing the Crucifixion in the familiar surroundings of their own town , played out by people they knew socially or commercially is not to be underestimated in the creation of strong religious ...
... associated immediacy for the audience of witnessing the Crucifixion in the familiar surroundings of their own town , played out by people they knew socially or commercially is not to be underestimated in the creation of strong religious ...
Page 129
... associated with popular comedy . The audience is encouraged , by a process of habituation , to see threats associated with the vices as comical posturing . When Mischief enters the play he tells us he has come to make game , and when ...
... associated with popular comedy . The audience is encouraged , by a process of habituation , to see threats associated with the vices as comical posturing . When Mischief enters the play he tells us he has come to make game , and when ...
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