Author: Peter Meredith
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The Mary Play is a beautiful and engaging piece of late medieval stagecraft. It is rich in music and spectacle, and is the only English play which deals with the parents of the Virgin Mary and with her early life; the only play which centers on a prayer, the Ave Maria; the only play which in its devotional intensity reflects the central concerns of the late fifteenth century lay piety.
Author: Victor I Scherb
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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In the late 1400s in eastern England, a scribe was in the process of compiling a large dramatic manuscript of over two hundred vellum folios. The manuscript contains components of an independent Mary Play, parts one and two of an independent Passion Play and an independent Assumption of Mary Play, as well as ten play subjects that appear in no other English cycles - the killing of Lamech in the Noah Play, the Root of Jesse, the story of Joachim and Anne, the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the Parliament of Heaven, the Trial of Mary and Joseph, the scene of Mary and the cherry tree in the Nativity Play, the Death of Herod, the scene of Veronica's handkerchief in the Procession to Calvary, and the appearance of the risen Christ to the Virgin Mary in her Assumption Play. This edition acknowledges the N-Town compiler who took plays from various contexts and integrated them into an existing cycle of plays, thus treating the manuscript as if it were a superstructure whose parts could be replaced, renovated, and supplemented without altering the fundamental coherence of the overarching design.
Author: Colleen Elaine Donnelly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789088903670
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book contains translations of two Medieval plays featuring Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary.
Author: Maurice Hussey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: Greg Walker
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 9780631217275
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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This anthology of drama in English contains plays from the late 14th century to the onset of the Renaissance. It brings together selections from all the major dramatic genres to provide a sense of the breadth and depth of medieval dramatic activity.
Author: Stephen Spector
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197224113
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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These volumes are one of the four extant Middle English cycles of mystery plays. A collection of unknown origin, N-Town contains forty-one plays, dramatizing divine history from Creation to Doomsday and illustrating ways of reading, supplementing and altering biblical accounts. The collection is rich in textual information testifying about the alteration and expansion of the text. The language of the plays advance knowledge of the history of English. The plays provide instructions in the fundamental elements of medieval Christianity and explain much about forms of consolation and self-fortification that were available in the late Middle Ages.
Author: Peter Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Author: Penny Granger
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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First full examination of the N-Town Play, arguing for its reappraisal as a work of private devotion as well as public performance.
Author: Stephen Spector
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Author: Patrick J. Collins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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