U6 L5 Elizabethan Drama Flashcards
Where did English drama originate from?
Middle Age church plays
What was the purpose of Church plays?
educate people on Latin liturgy
What is liturgy?
forms of ritual or public worshup
How were the lines of Church plays delivered?
chanted or sung
What led to the church forbidding plays on church property?
1-plays became elaborate/humorous, no longer educated worship
2-transferred outdoors
3-audience lost dignity, destroyed church property
After Church plays, where did plays find new support?
town authorities who used trade guilds and dramatic companies
What were the characteristics of Mystery Play production and what they were based on?
- Scripture
- secularized
- dramatized plan of salvation in Old and New testaments
What were the wagons where Mystery plays were performed called?
pageants
What did the first, second, and third wagon portray in Mystery plays?
1-creation
2-fall of angels
3-fall of man
What were Miracle Plays based on?
- NOT SCRIPTURE
- lives of Saints and Mary
When were Morality plays developed?
Late Middle Ages
What did Morality Plays portray/perform?
- dramatized allegory
- personified abstract virtue and vices (eg. Mercy and Shame)
- competed to win souls
- BASICALLY DRAMATIZED SERMONS
Where were Morality Plays performed?
- inner courtyard of inns
- three sides of apartments surrounded
- balconies for rich, unroofed inn yard for poor
- stage: sawhorses supported platform, curtain behind scaffold hid actors
What is a scaffold?
temporary wooden stage
Is the exact definition of Interlude known?
no
Where might have Interludes originated?
- Henry VIII reign
- brief skit btw banquet courses
What are interludes?
brief play btw events of dramatic performance, entertainment, or feast
Some interludes developed from and resembled what kind of play?
morality plays