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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... produced the particular play . It seems though that especially skilful actors could be hired to perform in another play as well . A statute of 1476 declares that no actor is allowed to perform in more than two plays on Corpus Christi ...
... produced the particular play . It seems though that especially skilful actors could be hired to perform in another play as well . A statute of 1476 declares that no actor is allowed to perform in more than two plays on Corpus Christi ...
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... producing the corn , could appreciate the best sheaf . It is Abel who attempts to correct Cain's , and the ... produce it and can also be clearly seen from some distance away as a concrete demonstration of the doctrinal point of the ...
... producing the corn , could appreciate the best sheaf . It is Abel who attempts to correct Cain's , and the ... produce it and can also be clearly seen from some distance away as a concrete demonstration of the doctrinal point of the ...
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... produced using a torch or candles and it is interesting to note that the York Shepherds Play was produced by the Chandlers ' , or Candlemakers , Guild which would have been able to provide the means for producing an impressive light ...
... produced using a torch or candles and it is interesting to note that the York Shepherds Play was produced by the Chandlers ' , or Candlemakers , Guild which would have been able to provide the means for producing an impressive light ...
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