EN 2633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Liturgical Drama, Medieval Theatre, Recusancy
9 Feb 2018
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Following the fall of rome, theatrical activities all but disappeared in medieval europe, medieval theatre begins in the church, liturgical drama is traced to tropes inserted into the easer service; this is the quem. In 1264 pope urbane iv established the feast of corpus christi (celebrated between may. 23 and june 24) tied to easter: plays focused on the passion (the is the passion of christ; the suffering of christ, early liturgical drama was in latin, but eventually it appears in the vernacular, in this case. English: plays were put on by guilds, pinners made nails (play of crucifixion, baker"s guild (play about the last supper, water leaders and drawer guilds (play of noah"s flood, etc, fixed stage: Mak and gill: parody of the holy family, as mak is a false joseph, gill is a false mary, their baby a false baby jesus. Medieval drama: mak has great relevance to the theatre.
