Medieval Theatre
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ITP Seminar - Midterm Key Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Quem quaeritis trope | 'Whom do you seek at the sepulcher?';The first example of bringing theatre into a church |
| Mansions | Also known as booths or houses; represented different locales in biblical stories and in scenes from the life of Christ as performed in churches; places in the church before which the action of each individual story would play |
| Platea | Generalized playing space; actors came from the mansions to this point |
| Feast of Corpus Christi | Late spring/early summer festival |
| Liturgical Drama (Bible-histories) | Coincides with Easter; type of play acted within or near the church and relating stories from the Bible and of the saints |
| Cycles Drama | Drama staged in a public square; pageant wagons carried actors to one playing space after another |
| Mystery Plays | focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompanying antiphonal song; developed from the 10th to the 16th century, reaching the height of their popularity in the 15th century before being rendered obsolete by the rise of professional theatre |
| Morality Play | A type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil |
| Guilds | In 1210 an edict of the church forbade clergy being involved with the theatre and the plays went to the guilds |
| Pageant Wagon | Moved through the town and stopped before a platea; scenes could be played at once on different wagons; players came to audience |
| Hell Mouth | Always located on stage left; left was sinister |
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