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 81
... Show was held instead . The Midsummer Show seems to have been a spectacular celebration using live exotic animals , models of giants and elements and characters from folk lore and folk celebration . At this show the trade guilds ...
... Show was held instead . The Midsummer Show seems to have been a spectacular celebration using live exotic animals , models of giants and elements and characters from folk lore and folk celebration . At this show the trade guilds ...
Page 108
... shows its dependence on the physical conditions of performance , particularly on the actor's ability to portray discourse within the dramatic space . The dramatic presentations of Morality plays appear to have been diverse and show the ...
... shows its dependence on the physical conditions of performance , particularly on the actor's ability to portray discourse within the dramatic space . The dramatic presentations of Morality plays appear to have been diverse and show the ...
Page 152
... shows a knowledge of classical drama , as it displays a five - act structure and continental scene divisions . While it is based on a Psychomachia , the ideological combats are only verbal . There is no horseplay or ribaldry and it had ...
... shows a knowledge of classical drama , as it displays a five - act structure and continental scene divisions . While it is based on a Psychomachia , the ideological combats are only verbal . There is no horseplay or ribaldry and it had ...
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