Author: Martial Rose
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393004830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.

Author: Maurice Hussey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Terrence McNally
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216964
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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THE STORY: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: We are going to tell you an old and familiar story. But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels t

Author: Adrian Henri
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Sixteen hours of thirty-two rhymed playlets compressed into two two-hour dramas.

Author: Garrett P J Epp
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. Once thought to constitute a cycle of plays from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire's West Riding, the collection includes some of the best-known examples of medieval English drama, including the much-anthologized Second Shepherds Play.

Author: Clifford Davidson
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of Jesus. In this way the "cultus Dei" thus celebrated allowed the people to venerate the Eucharistic bread in order that they might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history. Perhaps it is logical, therefore, that pageants and plays were introduced in order to access yet another way of visualizing and participating in those events. Thus the "invisible things" of the divine order "from the creation of the world" might be displayed. The York Corpus Christi Plays, contained in London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290 and comprising more than thirteen thousand lines of verse, actually represent a unique survival of medieval theater. They form the only complete play cycle verifiably associated with the feast of Corpus Christi that is extant and was performed at a specific location in England.

Author: Dan Wakefield
Publisher: Christian Large Print
ISBN: 9780802727022
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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A collection of personal miracle stories shares the experiences of people from different religions and various walks of life, including an Irish factory worker, a Buddhist at Berkley,and a prisoner at Sing-Sing

Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: John T Sebastian
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a playwright possessed of a tremendous theatrical imagination, notwithstanding his choice of subject matter.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781420978001
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Written in Middle English during the Tudor period, "Everyman" is the most famous example of the medieval morality play. Popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century, morality plays were allegorical dramas in which the protagonists are met with the personifications of personal attributes and tasked with choosing either a good and godly life or evil. "Everyman" is the archetypal morality play, as the main character, Everyman, represents all of mankind. God, frustrated with the wicked and greedy, sends Death to Everyman and summons him to account for his misdeeds and sins. It was believed that God tallied all of one's good and evil deeds in life and then one must provide an accounting before God upon one's death. During Everyman's pilgrimage to God, he meets many characters, such as Fellowship, Good Deeds, and Knowledge. Everyman asks them all to join him in his journey so that he may improve his reckoning before God. In the end, it is only Good Deeds that stays with him before God and helps Everyman find salvation and eternal life. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.