Medieval Plays Trope: A short dramatic embellishment to the text
Liturgy: Formal rituals within a church service
Liturgical drama: Religious plays, chanted in Latin, usually at Easter or Christmas Quem Quaertis: A 4 line exchange surrounding the resurrection when the three Marys go to Christ's tomb. Latin for Whom do you seek?
Mansion: Small structure/platform within church to show locations in the liturgical drama
Platea: Main acting area
Mystery Plays
Adam and Eve
Cain and Abel
Abraham and Isaac
The Last Supper
The Crucifixion
The Resurrection
Judgement Day Guilds Performing Cycles
The shipwrights - Noah’s Ark.
The goldsmiths - the Three Wise Men.
The shepherds - the nativity.
The bakers - the Last Supper. Towns and Cycles
Wakefield – 32 plays Towns and Cycles
York – 48 plays Towns and Cycles
Chester – 25 plays. Miracle Plays
12th century dramatized the lives, the legends and miracles of Roman Catholic saints Mystery or Cycle Plays
dramatized series of biblical scenes, based on Old and New Testaments
Short dramas
Entertaining, historical, and full of anachronisms
The Second Shepherd’s Play
Theatrical spaces throughout the town
Towns had their own scripts/cycles, i.e. Yorktown cycle, Chester cycle Mystery or Cycle Plays
Creation to Doomsday sponsored by the guilds
Noah and the Flood - shipbuilders, fishers, mariners, etc
Crucifixion: Carpenters
Gifts to Christ: Goldsmith Videos on Mystery Plays, The Dark Ages, and special Documentary
York Mystery Plays- trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAKzf4zndmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nyFLOlEupM
Liverpool University Chester Noah Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn0pcYONuxc