In A. With an ever growing audience to please, the town-guilds found that a perfect opportunity to showcase their works with the introduction of the Corpus Christi festival, in , that takes place 57 days after Easter.
The performances were grouped together and consisted of plays such as, Noah and the Flood, and The Creation of the World and the Fall of Adam. From these small groups came the four most prominent collections of mystery plays, the York cycle with 48 pageants, the Towneley plays with 32 pageants, the Chester cycle with 24 pageants, and the Wakefield N-town plays with 42 pageants. It was derived from the Latin word ministerium, meaning an association of clergy from different religious groups.
This was the term used to describe the guilds which performed these plays, which is why is was used to name to describe the actual plays being performed. By the time of the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the Reformation, in England, the Mystery plays started to die down and were replaced in popularity by Morality plays.
This section needs citations and careful editing for sentence errors. Characteristics Mystery plays were dramatizations of both the Old and New Testament miracles. Another popular topic was Christ and his crucifixion and resurrection. In the beginning of the popularity of Mystery plays the parts in the performance were played by clergymen and other members of the church.
During their peak, Mystery plays were moved out of the church and performed on wagons and moved about the different towns. Due to the separation from the church the plays tended to have more of sarcastic tone to them and sometimes even went as far as mocking priests and monks, the people who had a big part in the creation of the plays.
Another change that came with the separation of the church was the switch from clergymen as performers to members of guilds and craftsman.
A huge aspect of Mystery plays was that they neglected to utilize the three unities; place, time, and action. Because of this the plays could represent any location or time and were not tied down by each story they were performing and could pose two time periods or locations together that are not cohesive. Also they did not limit their performances, they used technologies, such as trap doors and mechanisms to create the illusion of flying, to get the realest effect and please the audience.
Just like Mystery Plays the Miracle play originated to enhance the liturgical services, and were later separated from the church. Miracle play , also called Saint's Play , one of three principal kinds of vernacular drama of the European Middle Ages along with the mystery play and the morality play.
A miracle play presents a real or fictitious account of the life, miracles , or martyrdom of a saint. Secondly, what are the characteristics of morality plays?
Morality plays typically contain a protagonist who represents either humanity as a whole or a smaller social structure. Supporting characters are personifications of good and evil. This alignment of characters provides the play's audience with moral guidance. Miracle Play , or Mystery Play , in medieval Europe, a dramatization of a story from the Bible or the life of a saint. The terms were used interchangeably in England. Morality play. Morality play, also called morality, an allegorical drama popular in Europe especially during the 15th and 16th centuries, in which the characters personify moral qualities such as charity or vice or abstractions as death or youth and in which moral lessons are taught.
Morality plays taught lessons of morality through the use of allegorical characters. Mystery plays told stories from the bible and gave way to large mystery cycles in which many stories were told sequentially on the same day. Miracle plays told the stories of the Saint's lives, sometimes true and sometimes fictional. What is the most famous morality play? Is Faustus a morality play? Like other morality plays of its time, Doctor Faustus is the story of how a mortal yields to temptation and ultimately suffers the wrath of God for his sinful deeds.
It didn't seem to matter. The people attended these plays. They didn't have to, but it was a break from their normal daily lives.
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