The English Mystery PlaysUniversity of California Press, 1 janv. 1980 - 437 pages This important new study of the English mystery plays has a twofold purpose. It is concerned to investigate the antecedents of the four extant cycles and to demonstrate the dramatic value of the plays themselves The opening and concluding chapters place the plays in their historical context by discussing on the one hand the emergence and achievements of genuine religious drama (as opposed to liturgical drama) in the twelfth century and on the other the changes in taste that threw the plays into disrepute in the sixteenth century. The man part of the book analyzes the plays in detail, considering the iconographic and theological traditions that guided the dramatists in their treatment of biblical subject-matter, and also looking at the Continental drama of the time to find out what other dramatic possibilities were open to writers in the Middle Ages. -- From publisher's description. |
Table des matières
TwelfthCentury Knowledge of Plays and Acting | 25 |
Drama in the Twelfth Century | 39 |
The Development of the Cycle Form | 54 |
Attitudes to Drama and Dramatic Theory | 77 |
Plays of the Fall | 105 |
Types and Prophecies of the Redemption | 132 |
Nativity Plays I | 159 |
Nativity Plays II | 182 |
The Passion | 238 |
Triumphal and Eschatological Plays | 269 |
Conclusion | 298 |
The Decline of the Plays | 312 |
A The Shrewsbury Fragments The Plays of The Burial and | 327 |
B French Influence on the Mystery Plays | 336 |
Select Bibliography | 425 |
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