PPT-MEDIEVAL CYCLE PLAYS

Vocabulary Mystery Play Guilds Pageant wagon York Cycle Wakefield Cycle Oberammergau Miracle Play Everyman Passion Play MYSTERY Plays Mystery from L atin meaning occupation Told Bible stories. . drama. Millennium. 1. Page. . 31. Medieval Drama. Religious . celebrations . commemorating . great . Christian events: the Mass, Christmas and . . Easter; . . . Main subjects: the . Creation, Adam and Eve, the murder of Abel, . Denition :Anr-cycleisdenotedby(i1i2:::ir):Example :11=(1)1cycle1212=(1)1cycle1221=(12)2cycle123321=(13)2cycle123231=(123)3cycle12344312=(1423)4cycle1234535421=(13425)5cycle12345 By Mr. Healy. The Fall of Rome in Broad Strokes…. The Roman Empire had become to large to manage . Soon it split into small independently controlled states. After the fall of Rome. Europe fell into the Dark Ages . After . the fall of the Roman Empire . in c.476 . AD, came a period known . as . the “DARK AGES”.. . The Church was the only stable “government”.. During the Medieval period:. The . Christian Church . Theatre History. Bell-ringers. What are some events the prehistoric people may have pantomimed in their early storytelling?. Imagine sitting around a prehistoric campfire listening to a story. What are some of the sounds and lights which may have naturally added to the drama of the story? How can this image be used to enhance drama today?. Ancient Greek Drama. Drama festivals began in Athens Greece about 5. th. century B.C.. Athens. City-state. Democracy. Educated citizens. Slave labour = leisure society. Ancient Greek Drama. 4 festivals honouring Dionysus--god of wine and vines. The Earliest Form of Theatre Recorded. Historians found that Ancient Egyptians performed a three-day pageant (performance) about four thousand years ago. The pageant explained the story of Osiris, an Egyptian god. 2. nd. period- Theatre Arts. Video. Who?. The Greeks originally started Medieval drama. The Latins started this type of drama as well when they wanted to express the Bible in plays for people to understand more.. How did theatre, as we know it, come to be?. Greek Theatre. Rooted in Dionysian hymns -in honor of DIONYSUS, god . of . wine and fertility. . Play festivals were so popular entire towns would shut down for days! Local houses would sponsor plays for competition. . Early Medieval times (7. th. century) the church played a part in stopping theater performances.. Church was then responsible for rebirth of theater during the Middle Ages. Dramatic performances based on the story of the Resurrection, were 1. -Humanism- . anxious about an end always imminent.. ─The Catholic Church embraced a variety of standpoints.. ─Religion was regionalised.. ─Papacy recovered strenght from the Great Schism (1378-1417) and Conciliarism.. ISSN: 0210-4903 Miscelánea Medieval Murciana 2009, XXXIII; pp. 123-142 «HAN TAL BEC VOSTRES GALLINES?» SOBRE LA REPRESENTACIÓN MEDIEVAL DEL FALO A TRAVÉS DE ALGUNOS EJEMPLOS ICONOGRÁFICOS Y L BRITISH PROSE AND DRAMA: ANGLO-SAXON TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Topic: Origin and Development of British Drama. Shubhra Singh Sardar. Assistant Professor. 1066-1485. The Medieval Period. Began in 1066 with the invasion of the Normans, led by William of Normandy. (Battle of Hastings) . The ideologies of the Anglo-Saxons (solid and civilized) merged with the characteristics of the Normans (stylized and older)..