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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... evidence of cross - fertilisation.2 Texts which have survived from northern France as well as a chuckverlone English text demonstrate that outside the church , drama was active and highly developed in the early medieval period . The ...
... evidence of cross - fertilisation.2 Texts which have survived from northern France as well as a chuckverlone English text demonstrate that outside the church , drama was active and highly developed in the early medieval period . The ...
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... evidence for a precise location is circumstantial rather than 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 ...
... evidence for a precise location is circumstantial rather than 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 ...
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... evidence . Once the trick has been discovered and the violent punishment of Mak has been affected ( 11. 623-37 ) , the Shepherds sleep again and this time the audience's expectations are confirmed for now the Angel does appear with the ...
... evidence . Once the trick has been discovered and the violent punishment of Mak has been affected ( 11. 623-37 ) , the Shepherds sleep again and this time the audience's expectations are confirmed for now the Angel does appear with 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