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Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays

By: Dutton Publishing

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Dutton Publishing)


Product Info

Title
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
1959
Pages
266
Dimensions
4.5x7.25x.75"
NKG Part #
2147881813
Type
Softcover

Description

The medieval religious drama is absorbing not only for itself but as a preparation for the golden age of Elizabethan drama. This important collection contains the famous morality play Everyman and a completely new selection of fifteen biblical pageants derived from the Latin liturgical drama of the medieval church. These pageants are just as religious in origin and inspiration as the church architecture, painting, and sculpture of the Middle Ages.

Most of these are Corpus Christi pageants or guild pageants - short plays acted by the trade guilds as episodes of the Corpus Christi cycle which dramatizes the whole Christian scheme of salvation.