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 46
... direct , critical caution has prompted the use of this denomination , although the connec- tions with Wakefield are considered by many critics to be convinc- ing enough to support at least a hyphenation to produce the Towneley ...
... direct , critical caution has prompted the use of this denomination , although the connec- tions with Wakefield are considered by many critics to be convinc- ing enough to support at least a hyphenation to produce the Towneley ...
Page 88
... direct address : And ye lanettys of the stewys and lychoures on lofte youre baill now brewys . welcom to my see ! 5 ... What the Towneley - Wakefield play lacks , however , is any per- suasion through positive example and while the ...
... direct address : And ye lanettys of the stewys and lychoures on lofte youre baill now brewys . welcom to my see ! 5 ... What the Towneley - Wakefield play lacks , however , is any per- suasion through positive example and while the ...
Page 137
... direct address with the resumption of identity with Mankind . The risks involved are the risks of carnival , that order cannot be restored and the audience turned about . If successful , the audience have not just watched but will ...
... direct address with the resumption of identity with Mankind . The risks involved are the risks of carnival , that order cannot be restored and the audience turned about . If successful , the audience have not just watched but will ...
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