THEA 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Black Death, Liturgical Drama, York Mystery Plays
21 Dec 2016
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Lecture 5: medieval theatre: a day in the life. Key words liturgical drama vernacular drama quem quaeritis trope. Feast of corpus christi guilds mystery plays mystery cycle. Passion plays mansion pageant wagons processional staging hell mouth morality plays allegory. Recap past lectures: theatre is always political and is dangerous (people are scared of what it can do). Liturgy: the text and components of religious ceremonies: church"s influence. Rome falls by 5th century but is still influential, importance of the church. Huge section of europe is christian governed by the pope. Establishing firm control over the way people were thinking and interpreting texts. Centralized control of religious life + feudalism = homogenous culture: christian performance. Art and performance used to convey god"s words. Few members of the church were literate (didn"t know latin) so they had to find other ways to communicate and cover the core of the gospel to their people. Also music; the way it could move people emotionally.
