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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... audience . Despite this important focus of attention , the cycle play audiences were the least formally constrained of any theatre in the ensuing western European tradition . Performances were not in a special building with limited ...
... audience . Despite this important focus of attention , the cycle play audiences were the least formally constrained of any theatre in the ensuing western European tradition . Performances were not in a special building with limited ...
Page 85
... audience must be able to identify with the souls being judged and relate what happens to them in the play , damnation or salvation , to what will happen to them at the Day of Doom . The details of the souls ' lives provide a means of ...
... audience must be able to identify with the souls being judged and relate what happens to them in the play , damnation or salvation , to what will happen to them at the Day of Doom . The details of the souls ' lives provide a means of ...
Page 137
... audience turned about . If successful , the audience have not just watched but will themselves have experienced directly the sinfulness they share with Mankind , and recognised it as aberrant . Much therefore hangs on the ending of the ...
... audience turned about . If successful , the audience have not just watched but will themselves have experienced directly the sinfulness they share with Mankind , and recognised it as aberrant . Much therefore hangs on the ending of the ...
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