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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... performance text of possible realisation . While acknowledging the importance of working from performance to dramatic text , it is the case so often for the medieval period , with no recorded contemporary performances and few modern ...
... performance text of possible realisation . While acknowledging the importance of working from performance to dramatic text , it is the case so often for the medieval period , with no recorded contemporary performances and few modern ...
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... Performances were not in a special building with limited seating capacity , but in the streets and at several locations so that there was a possibility for all to see . No money was required to witness the performance so no economic ...
... Performances were not in a special building with limited seating capacity , but in the streets and at several locations so that there was a possibility for all to see . No money was required to witness the performance so no economic ...
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... performance . We know , for example , that Fulgens and Lucres was written by Henry Medwall , whose patron was Archbishop Morton and that the play is likely to have been performed at Lambeth Palace , probably for the occasion of Prince ...
... performance . We know , for example , that Fulgens and Lucres was written by Henry Medwall , whose patron was Archbishop Morton and that the play is likely to have been performed at Lambeth Palace , probably for the occasion of Prince ...
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