The Biblical Drama of Medieval EuropeThis book presents a detailed survey and analysis of the surviving corpus of biblical drama from all parts of medieval Christian Europe. Over five hundred plays from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries are examined, in a wide-ranging discussion which makes available the full scope of this important part of theatre history. The volume is specially organised to provide a complete overview of major aspects of medieval biblical theatre, including the theatrical community of both audience and players; the major plays and cycles; and the legacy of medieval biblical theatre. The book also includes valuable appendices with information on the liturgical calendar, processions, and the Mass and the Bible. |
Contents
Christian Europe and the Play of God | 1 |
THE THEATRICAL COMMUNITY | 11 |
Liturgical and feastday drama | 13 |
Latin plays for Easter and Christmas | 16 |
Festival drama of the later Middle Ages | 18 |
Plays for Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi plays | 22 |
Civic and community drama | 28 |
Passion play and passion cycle | 30 |
The public life of Jesus | 113 |
The Temptation of Christ | 115 |
The Ministry of Jesus | 116 |
Plays of the parables | 121 |
The Judgement of Jesus Christ | 123 |
The Passion and Resurrection | 126 |
The Betrayal | 127 |
The Last Supper | 128 |
occasional plays | 36 |
Guild and community drama | 38 |
Princes at plays and plays for princes | 40 |
Plays for the performing community | 44 |
Performance and the community | 45 |
Plays in the street | 47 |
Theatres and playingplaces | 49 |
Paying for the plays | 52 |
Women in the theatrical community | 54 |
THE THEATRICAL TEXT | 63 |
Creation and Fall | 65 |
God the Creator | 66 |
Adam and Eve | 68 |
Cain and Abel | 70 |
the death of Adam | 71 |
The story of Noah | 73 |
The Covenant and the Kingdom | 75 |
Moses and the Ten Commandments | 77 |
The Kingdom of Israel | 79 |
Prophets and precursors of Redemption | 83 |
The Four Daughters of God | 87 |
The early life of the Virgin Mary | 89 |
John the Baptist | 92 |
The Annunciation | 93 |
The Visitation and the birth of John the Baptist | 96 |
The Birth and childhood of Jesus | 98 |
The shepherds | 102 |
The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus | 104 |
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple | 108 |
The slaughter of the Innocents | 109 |
The flight into Egypt | 110 |
Jesus and the doctors in the Temple | 111 |
The Agony in the Garden and the Arrest of Jesus | 130 |
The remorse and death of Judas | 131 |
The Trials of Jesus | 132 |
The Crucifixion | 135 |
Deposition and Entombment | 137 |
The Harrowing of Hell | 138 |
The Resurrection and Visit to the Sepulchre | 139 |
The Ascension and Entry into Heaven | 142 |
Pentecost to Judgement | 144 |
Acts of the Apostles | 145 |
The Assumption of the Virgin | 146 |
The destruction of Jerusalem | 147 |
Eschatological plays | 148 |
The Last Judgement | 151 |
survival and revival | 158 |
Protestants Puritans and the plays | 160 |
Humanist and school drama | 162 |
Comedy of fear and the theatre of cruelty | 163 |
Classicism the Enlightenment and the biblical play | 165 |
Medieval tradition and the medieval text | 168 |
the liturgical context of the plays | 171 |
Processions | 174 |
The canonical Office Daily Hours | 175 |
Holy Week | 176 |
Liturgical books | 177 |
Notes | 180 |
Bibliographical index of plays | 270 |
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