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 119
... speech of Mankind is usually described as a ' walking and wending speech ' , 10 since each stanza seems to be delivered in front of consecutive scaffolds surrounding the platea . In Southern's arena , Mankind begins in the centre of the ...
... speech of Mankind is usually described as a ' walking and wending speech ' , 10 since each stanza seems to be delivered in front of consecutive scaffolds surrounding the platea . In Southern's arena , Mankind begins in the centre of the ...
Page 130
... speech is directed at the audience and this is made still clearer when Mischief makes a query ' Will ye list ? ' . This is a call for a response from the audience , an attempt to involve them . It resembles present - day pantomime ...
... speech is directed at the audience and this is made still clearer when Mischief makes a query ' Will ye list ? ' . This is a call for a response from the audience , an attempt to involve them . It resembles present - day pantomime ...
Page 137
... speech to all mankind . As Mercy returns to the subject of Christ's Passion , which occupied so much of the first speech made by Mercy to the audience as mankind , there is a suggestive relinking of Mankind and the audience . Thus , the ...
... speech to all mankind . As Mercy returns to the subject of Christ's Passion , which occupied so much of the first speech made by Mercy to the audience as mankind , there is a suggestive relinking of Mankind and the audience . Thus , 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