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 61
... clearly indicates its provenance from York . Although this material gives many indications as to the method of staging ... clear and both civic records and the manuscript show the assignation of the individual plays to particular guilds ...
... clearly indicates its provenance from York . Although this material gives many indications as to the method of staging ... clear and both civic records and the manuscript show the assignation of the individual plays to particular guilds ...
Page 119
... clear , while his isolation from them is highlighted : each man , though one of many , stands alone . He may have circled the inner , rather than the outer , area to deliver the speech . The text gives no clear indication of where he ...
... clear , while his isolation from them is highlighted : each man , though one of many , stands alone . He may have circled the inner , rather than the outer , area to deliver the speech . The text gives no clear indication of where he ...
Page 149
... clear that each influenced the other and that there was always a possibility of cross - fertilisation between ... clearly making use of the Morality tradition in its allegorical basis , can be performed by five actors , by means of ...
... clear that each influenced the other and that there was always a possibility of cross - fertilisation between ... clearly making use of the Morality tradition in its allegorical basis , can be performed by five actors , by means of ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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