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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 ID: 284364

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Medieval drama

Millennium

1

Page

31Slide2

Medieval Drama

Religious

celebrations

commemorating great Christian events: the Mass, Christmas and Easter; Main subjects: the Creation, Adam and Eve, the murder of Abel, and the Last Judgment; Initially, the performances took place in the nave of the church and were given by monks and priests but soon moved out of the church; Latin, therefore, was replaced with English and the clergy with common people ; Reasons for using the vernacular in the medieval dramaThe rise of the middle class;The growth of towns;The formation of religious and trade guilds (town corporations representing artisans and craftsmen);Main formsMystery (Miracle) Plays Morality Plays

ORIGINS

Episodes from the Bible:From the Creation of Adam to the Resurrection of Christ to the Last Judgment

Moral and allegorical reading of man’s life

13

th

, 14

th

and 15

th

centuriesSlide3

Mystery or Miracle

Plays

staged by members of the trade guilds;each guild specialised in a single biblical episode according to their craft: fishmongers were responsible for the representation of “the Great Flood”, bakers were in charge of “The last supper”, carpenters of the building of Noah’s ark and so on.performed in broad daylight on movable stage wagons: pageants;pageants stopped at some places in town: the market place, the town hall, the bishop’s residence;pageants were open on all sides; people used to stop in front of them and watch an episode;each pageant represented a section of the all story;to see the complete story people had to move from one pageant to another

Morality

Plays

characters were not taken from the Bible but personifications of human vices and virtues;

first step towards a psychological interpretation of characters;

use of invented plots;

the focus is shifted from ancient history to contemporary environment;

most popular Morality play was “Everyman”Slide4

The

Medieval

drama was the most popular form of art in the Middle Ages: all social classes watched it; the local population was involved in the creation of settings and all objects required to perform the play; the actors were simple citizens who played the roles of biblical characters for one day

Interlude

develops towards the end of 15

th

century;short play usually performed by a small acting company at a lord’s house;combines serious and comic elements;

two main technical expedients are used: the

disguise

and the dramatic character called

the vice

;

the purpose was to arouse laughter by means of witty

wordgames

.

Conclusions