Reading
Guide Medieval Theatre
As always - this
is just a guide, not an exhaustive outline of the readings.
- Levels of society
- Holy Roman Empire
- feudalism
- Theatre during the Dark Ages
- Roman mimes
- Teutonic minstrelsy
- popular festivals
- pagan rites
- Christian ceremonies
- scops
- co-opting of pagan customs by Christianity
- Phases of Middle Ages - early, high, late
- Mass and Hours
- Theatrical elements in early Christian celebrations
- Liturgical drama
- Hrosvitha
- mansions
- platea
- Feast of Fools
- guilds
- development of vernacular drama
- Corpus Christi
- cycles
- passion plays
- casting
- costumes of devils vs. other characters
- pageant wagons
- secular entertainments
- farce
- Morality plays
- Castle of Perseverence
- Everyman
- Chambers of Rhetoric
- Interludes
- mummers' plays
- tableaux vivants
- banning of religious drama
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