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 127
... popular and elite traditions , both in the content of the entertainment and in method of staging . The elaborate and costly medium of ' coterie ' theatre had a tradition of highly decorative sets , scenic machinery and an impulse ...
... popular and elite traditions , both in the content of the entertainment and in method of staging . The elaborate and costly medium of ' coterie ' theatre had a tradition of highly decorative sets , scenic machinery and an impulse ...
Page 149
... popular and courtly traditions were separate strands in the Interlude drama is clear . It is also clear that each influenced the other and that there was always a possibility of cross - fertilisation between traditions . Interludes of ...
... popular and courtly traditions were separate strands in the Interlude drama is clear . It is also clear that each influenced the other and that there was always a possibility of cross - fertilisation between traditions . Interludes of ...
Page 153
... popular conventions . Plays such as Ralph Roister Doister , again by Udall , while displaying its educated auspices in a five - act classical structure , incorporated the popular drama's Vice figure in the person of Matthew Merrygreek ...
... popular conventions . Plays such as Ralph Roister Doister , again by Udall , while displaying its educated auspices in a five - act classical structure , incorporated the popular drama's Vice figure in the person of Matthew Merrygreek ...
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