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Background: Medieval Europe
Theatre and Culture in the Middle Ages
Medieval Drama: Mystery and Morality Plays
Medieval Theatre Production
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When was the Middle Ages?
From 500 to 1500 C.E.
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Early medieval church drama, written in Latin and dealing with biblical stories.
What is litergical drama?
100
1. Take things out of their actual time period. 2. Mix different types of drama.
What is one of the standard dramatic techniques of medieval cycle plays?
100
1. A weakening of the church. 2. The secular qualities of drama overcame the religious material.
What is one of the reasons why there was a gradual decline of religious theatre toward the end of the Middle Ages?
200
The Roman Catholic Church.
What was the strongest force during the Middle Ages?
200
She wrote short musical plays that honored saints and the Virgin Mary. They were for performance on religious days.
What did Hildegard von Bingen write?
200
Secular theatre and drama.
What also existed during the Middle Ages that were not so popular compared to the religious dramas?
200
Freedom of movement. The stage can turn into whatever that was designated.
What is the benefit of using a platform stage?
300
Byzantium
What was the eastern Roman empire called?
300
Everyday speech of the people. Not Latin.
What is the language of vernacular drama?
300
Episodic. The structure is expansive in time, space, and numbers of characters.
Are mystery and morality plays climactic or episodic?
300
The related guilds. (Baker's guild, shipbuilder's guild, etc.)
Where were individual plays assigned to?
400
They were transferred and influenced the Renaissance.
What did the manuscripts influence after the eastern empire fell in 1453?
400
In town squares or other parts of cities. Not inside churches.
Where were vernacular dramas presented?
400
Dramas using religious characters and themes to teach a moral lesson.
What are morality plays?
400
He supervised the mounting of plays on wagons.
What is a pageant master's job?
500
Classical Greek drama: the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and the criticism of Aristotle.
Whose manuscripts were preserved in the eastern Roman empire? Name one of them.
500
Germany.
Where were Hrosvitha of Gandersheim and Hildegard von Bingen from?
500
Short dramas based on events of the Old and New Testaments and often organized into historical cycles. Also known as cycle plays.
What are mystery plays?
500
They moved through towns and stopped at points along the way to present one of the plays.
How did portable wagon stages hold performances?