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Author : Henry Ahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book English Mysteries and Miracle-plays written by Henry Ahn and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice Hussey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Chester Mystery Plays written by Maurice Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemary Woolf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520040816
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The English Mystery Plays written by Rosemary Woolf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420978001
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Everyman written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Middle English during the Tudor period, "Everyman" is the most famous example of the medieval morality play. Popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century, morality plays were allegorical dramas in which the protagonists are met with the personifications of personal attributes and tasked with choosing either a good and godly life or evil. "Everyman" is the archetypal morality play, as the main character, Everyman, represents all of mankind. God, frustrated with the wicked and greedy, sends Death to Everyman and summons him to account for his misdeeds and sins. It was believed that God tallied all of one's good and evil deeds in life and then one must provide an accounting before God upon one's death. During Everyman's pilgrimage to God, he meets many characters, such as Fellowship, Good Deeds, and Knowledge. Everyman asks them all to join him in his journey so that he may improve his reckoning before God. In the end, it is only Good Deeds that stays with him before God and helps Everyman find salvation and eternal life. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Author : Richard Beadle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611239
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book York Mystery Plays written by Richard Beadle and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of the cycle was governed by subject matter of enduring spiritual significance, both to its contemporary audience and in later literary and artistic tradition, and the selection reflects these concerns. Included are plays on the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ, and the Last Judgement. The Passion sequence has been expanded by six of the eight plays generally attributed to the great poetic dramatist known as the York Realist: the authentic text of these plays is not otherwise available in paperback. As well as providing detailed annotation, this edition offers an introduction which examines the history of the cycle and discusses the immensely popular modern productions in York and elsewhere. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Franz Heinrich Ahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book English Mysteries and Miracle-plays written by Franz Heinrich Ahn and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Marriott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Collection of English Miracle-plays Or Mysteries written by William Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080145509X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Medieval Craft written by Kurt A. Schreyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
Author : Martial Rose
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393004830
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Wakefield Mystery Plays written by Martial Rose and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1969 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.
Author : Arthur Wing Pinero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Second Mrs. Tanqueray written by Arthur Wing Pinero and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aubrey Tanqueray willingly withdraws from London society to marry his second wife, for Paula Ray has had a notorious past. She has all the warmth that Aubrey's first wife lacked. But in the country, ostracized by the respectable, their relationship becomes intolerably strained. Paula realises that her past will always harm those she loves. Even before Aubrey is told of Paula's suicide he curses men of his class who wreak such incalculable harm merely by leading a 'man's life'.
Author : Martin Stevens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858720
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Four Middle English Mystery Cycles written by Martin Stevens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Stevens examines the four extant complete cycles of Middle English mystery plays in light of the most recent research on the manuscripts, sources, and records relating to the medieval drama. The first comprehensive treatment of all four of the cycles, the book emphasizes the study of the surviving manuscripts as texts distinct from their performance history. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Peter Happe
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141921935
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book English Mystery Plays written by Peter Happe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1975-11-27 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to their production and they were to influence later dramatists significantly. The grand design of the mystery plays was to celebrate the Christian story from 'The Fall of Lucifer' to the 'Judgement Day', and this volume contains thirty-eight plays, forming in itself a composite cycle and including almost all the incidents common to the extant cycles.
Author : Rosemary Woolf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520022768
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)
Download or read book The English Mystery Plays written by Rosemary Woolf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525434097
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Morality Play written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route. When their traditional morality plays fail to garner them an audience, they begin to stage the “the play of Thomas Wells”—their own depiction of the real-life drama unfolding within the village around the murder of a young boy. The villagers believe they have already identified the killer, and the troupe believes their play will be a straightforward depiction of justice served. But soon the players soon learn that the details of the crime are elusive, and the lines between performance and reality become blurred as they discover, scene by scene, line by line, what really happened. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, Morality Play is at once a masterful work of historical fiction, a gripping murder mystery, and a literary work of the first order.
Author : Franz Heinrich Ahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book English Mysteries and Miracle-plays written by Franz Heinrich Ahn and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Hovey Stoddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book References for Students of Miracle Plays and Mysteries written by Francis Hovey Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplement to the Report of the secretary of the Board of regents. I. Histories, essays and works for reference.--II. Editions of plays not English.--III. Mysteries and miracle plays in England.--IV. Table of extant English mysteries.
Author : Anonymous Playwrights
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1801700672
Total Pages : 2941 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Mystery and Morality Plays - The Delphi Edition (Illustrated) written by Anonymous Playwrights and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 2941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystery and morality play were two of the three principal kinds of vernacular drama in Europe during the Middle Ages. Mystery plays, usually representing biblical subjects, developed from dramas presented in Latin by churchmen on sacred premises, depicting subjects like the Creation, Adam and Eve and the Last Judgment. They were often performed together in cycles which could last for days at special festivals and occasions. The morality play is an allegorical drama, in which the characters personify moral qualities and undergo didactic lessons. The action centres on a hero, such as Mankind, whose inherent weaknesses are assaulted by personified diabolic forces like the Seven Deadly Sins, but who may choose redemption and enlist the aid of such figures as Mercy, Justice, Temperance and Truth. This eBook presents a comprehensive collection of mystery and morality plays, with numerous illustrations, rare medieval texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Please note: due to the book‐burning zeal of the English Reformation, no English text of a ‘miracle play’ survives and so an example of this drama cannot appear in this edition. * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to mystery and morality plays * Concise introductions to the major cycles and plays * All of the plays of the four principal mystery play cycles (York, Wakefield, N-Town and Chester) * The plays appear in the form of their original Middle English texts * Many rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing * All extant English morality plays from the Middle Ages * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special Middle English glossary of words to aid your reading of the plays * Special contextual section, with four essays charting the development of drama in the Middle Ages * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Mystery Plays York Mystery Plays (c. mid-14th century) Wakefield Mystery Plays (mid-15th century) N-Town Plays (late 15th century) Chester Mystery Plays (15th century) The Morality Plays The Pride of Life (late 14th century) The Castle of Perseverance (c. 1425) Wisdom (c. 1460) Mankind (c. 1470) Nature (c. 1495) by Henry Medwall Everyman (1510) Contextual Works Miracle Plays and Mysteries (1913) by Georges Michel Bertrin English Miracle Plays (1914) by Arnold Wynne Moralities and Interludes (1914) by Arnold Wynne Rise of the Drama (1921) by Andrew Lang Glossary of Middle English Words Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
