Historical Context
The major influence during Dark Ages.
What is the Church?
Audiences morality plays were often performed for.
What is courts, nobles, or colleges?
Morality plays used allegory to convey this.
What is religious moral ideas?
Another name for The Miracle Play.
What is the "Saint's Play"?
A morality play that shows a life of sin will lead to hell.
What is The Castle of Perseverance?
Church services were conducted in this language.
What is Latin?
Two mystery plays.
What is The Shepherd's Play and The Flight to Egypt?
The type of tone morality plays evolved into.
The basis of miracle plays.
What is describing the life and works of a saint?
A miracle play that describes an attempt by three Jewish men to destroy a representative figure of Christ.
What is The Croxton Play of the Sacrament?
Stories of the Bible unable to be told in the church.
What is vernacular drama?
Four prominent collections of mystery plays.
What is York Cycle, Chester Cycle, Wakefield (Towneley) Plays, and N-Towns Plays?
Two morality plays.
What is The Castle of Perseverance and Everyman?
Made King Henry the head of the church and allowed him to absorb its wealth.
What is the Act of Supremacy - 1534?
A mystery play that emphasizes daily life of middle ages; setting secular and religious world side by side.
What is The Second Shepherd's Play?
The three types of vernacular drama.
What is mystery, morality, and miracle?
The tone mystery plays are known for.
The two forms of morality plays.
What is following someone's life from birth and focusing on one point in someone's life?
Closed churches with an income of less than 200 pounds per year.
What is Act of Suppression - 1536?
A play that focuses on one person's life.
What is Everyman?
The use of basic principles of the theatre to depict stories of the Bible.
What is liturgical drama?
The term "mystery" comes from this Latin word.
What is "ministerium"?
The difference between miracle/mystery plays and morality plays.
What is more theater based than church based?
Abbots and religious leaders who refused to comply were burned along with the churches and any accompanying manuscripts.
What is the Second Act of Suppression - 1539?
A play with a battle between vice and virtues.
What is The Castle of Perseverance?