The Religious DramaMowbray, 1913 - 182 pages |
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acted Ammergau Anonymous Plays appears Bartholomew Fair Beverley Bishop Boy Bishop Castell of Perseverance CHAPTER characters Chester play choir CHRIST Christian drama Christmas Church comedy comic Corpus Christi Coventry devil dialogue Digby Dodsley dramatist Easter Edited elaborate England English episodes evil extant feast festivals fifteenth FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PAGEANT GORDON CROSSE Gospel Harrowing of Hell hell Herod Holy HYCKESCORNER interlude King Ladies of London Latin liturgical drama Ludus Coventriae Magi Mankind Mary Magdalene mediaeval miracle cycles moral play Mystery Plays Nativity Play original PAGEANT AND SPECTATORS Passion Play PERCY DEARMER performed period PERRANZABULO Pilate Plate PLAYS REFERRED Pope popular feature procession Puritan queritis religious drama representation representing revival Rolls Series saints scaffolds scene scriptural secular drama sepulchre shepherds sixteenth century SKETCH OF FOURTEENTH-CENTURY soul spirit stage sung survived theatre Three Ladies tion trope Tudor Facsimile Texts various W. B. Yeats Wright
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Page 15 - ... bearing in their hands thuribles with incense, and stepping delicately as those who seek something, approach the sepulchre. These things are done in imitation of the angel sitting in the monument, and the women with spices coming to anoint the body of Jesus. When therefore he who sits there beholds the three approach him like folk lost and seeking something, let him begin in a dulcet voice of medium pitch to sing Quern quaeritis. And when he has sung it to the end, let the three reply in unison...
Page 90 - I have been told by some old people, who in their younger years were eyewitnesses of these pageants so acted, that the yearly confluence of people to see that shew was extraordinary great, and yielded no small advantage to this city.
Page 140 - Ark, with all the beasts two and two, and all the fowls of the air seen in a prospect sitting upon trees. Likewise over the Ark is seen the Sun rising in a most glorious manner. Moreover, a multitude of Angels will be seen in a double rank, which presents a double prospect, one for the Sun, the other for a palace, where will be seen six Angels, ringing of bells.
Page 15 - Dominus ! This said, let the one, still sitting there and as if recalling them, say the anthem Venite et videte locum. And saying this, let him rise, and lift the veil, and show them the place bare of the cross, but only the cloths laid there in which the cross was 1 A full account of the Concordia Regularis and extracts from the Latin text are in Appendix O.
Page 148 - Testament turn'd into melo-drames nightly ; And, doubtless, so fond they're of Scriptural facts, They will soon get the Pentateuch up in five acts. Here Daniel, in pantomime...
Page 44 - A Paradise is to be made in a raised spot, with curtains and cloths of silk hung round it at such a height that persons in the Paradise may be visible from the shoulders upwards.
Page 13 - Christicolae ? lesum Nazarenum crucifixum, o caelicolae. non est hie, surrexit sicut praedixerat. ite, nuntiate quia surrexit de sepulchre.
Page 147 - Sneer: I am quite of your opinion, Mrs. Dangle; the theatre in proper hands, might certainly be made the school of morality; but now, I am sorry to say it, people seem to go there principally for their entertainment!
Page 81 - Bridge Streete, and so one after an other 'till all the pagiantes weare played appoynted for the firste daye, and so likewise for the seconde and ihe thirde daye.
Page 79 - The manner of which playes was thus : they weare divided into 24 pagiantes according to the companyes of the Cittie & every companye brought forthe their pagiant w* was the cariage or place wch the played in.