Take 20 on Medieval Drama

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Take 20 on Medieval Drama20 slides of information related to the Medieval English Drama and the text Everyman, including key literary terms and ideas

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What was the center of the medieval peoples social, educational, and spiritual lives?

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Tropes embellishments on the Mass liturgy

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First English Play (in Latin)Quem Quaeritis (Whom Do You Seek)Angel: Whom do you seek ye in the tomb, O lovers of Christ?

Marys: Jesus of Nazareth, him that was crucified, O heavenly being.

Angel: He is risen, as he hath prophesied. Go announce, that he that risen from the dead.

Marys: Alleluia, Alleluia.

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Expanded into pageants with costumes, scenery, props, etc.

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Moved to the church steps

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Scripts to English and thenstorylines became bawdy andchurch dropped productions

Guilds of tradesmen produced and performed on pageant wagons

Three types of short plays performed in cycles, or series

Mystery

Miracle

Morality

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Mystery Plays -- dramasbased on stories of the Bible

The Second Shepherds Play,tells of a madcap story of a sheep thief, but as it ends we learn the shepherds are headed to the Nativity.

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Miracle Plays -- dramasabout the lives of the saints

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Morality Plays allegorical dramas in which abstrations are personified in the struggle for a human soulextended metaphor in which characters,objects, and events equate meaningsoutside the work

Everyman,written about 1500,is the best example of the English morality play

The Dance of Death

motif in the humanities, a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, Death unites all, or all are equal in Deaths presence

2010 Photo by Chris Willis at http://www.flickr.com/photos/8381313@N08/4653969061/ 2007 Music by Kevin MacLeod. Camille Saint-Sans, Danse Macabre, Opus 40 in G minor (Computer generated).

Black Plague 1348-49Miniatur aus der Toggenburg-Bibel (Schweitz) von 1411

17Black Plague 1348-49Miniatur aus der Toggenburg-Bibel (Schweitz) von 1411

BLACK PLAGUE

Europe 1348/49Bubonic plagueso named for swollen glandscalled buboes

Engraving ofa plague doctor

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Hans Holbein IIc. 1498-1543

German portraitist religious art satire Reformation propaganda1999 Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein, Cologne: Knemann, 1542

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