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Encyclopedia Articles on: middle ages plays

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    Passion Play
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    PASSION PLAY genre of the miracle play that has survived from the Middle Ages into modern times. Its subject...resurrection of Jesus. Passion plays were first given in Latin...200 years later the entire play was performed in German...
     
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    Middle English Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of life. The miracle play , a long cycle of short plays based upon biblical episodes...popular throughout the Middle Ages in England. The morality play , an allegorical drama...Manual of the Writings in Middle English (1916 51...
     
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    Scene Design and Stage Lighting
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...curtain was sometimes used to open the play; it was dropped into a trough as the play began. The Romans were probably the...lamps at evening performances. The Middle Ages The religious plays of the Middle Ages were performed at first within...
     
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    George, Saint
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...army under the protection of St. George during the Third Crusade. He became the patron of England in the late Middle Ages. In old plays and in art St. George is the slayer of the dragon; The Golden Legend did much for the extension of the tale...
     
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    Drama, Western
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...play ). The morality play , a third type of religious...15th cent. Morality plays were religious allegories...characteristics of the morality play that is primarily intended...discovered Greek and Roman plays. Little had been known...classical drama during the Middle Ages, and evidently the only...
     

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