French Medieval Drama Database Project  Bibliographie des miracles et mystres franais, par Graham A. Runnalls Le Corpus du Thtre religieux franais du Moyen ge, par Graham A. Runnalls Manuscripts Jour dou jugement Eustache Mercade Robin et Marion Documentation Actors Roles from Medieval France by Graham...

Collectors Post Medieval Drama Links  A personal selection madeby Sydney Higgins I have wasted countless hours chasing after alleged medieval drama links on the World Wide Web that turned out to be either non-existent or of little value. The following selection gives the ones that...

Queer Play  Thanks in part to the advent of queer theory in cultural studies, crossdressing has in recent years been the focus of a considerable body of critical work, especially in studies of the theater of the English Renaissance. From a variety...

Minstrels and Jongleurs  This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 7. ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 3-6. The minstrel was one of the most picturesque figures of medieval life. He...

Medieval Theatre Index  A history of dramatic literature as it developed during the Middle Ages. Authorship of the English Cycles A brief study of the known facts concerning authorship of these Medieval plays. The Basochians and Enfants Sans Souci A brief look at...

Medieval Church Plays  This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 7. ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 2-3, 6-10. The remarkable fact that the revival of the drama in modern Europe...

The Medieval Drama  This article was originally published in The Development of the Drama. Brander Matthews. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. pp. 107-146. THE Greeks, from the rudest beginnings, and by the aid of their incomparable instinct for form, brought to perfection...

Moralities, Interludes and Farces of the Middle Ages  This article was originally published in A Short History of the Drama. Martha Fletcher Bellinger. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1927. pp. 138-44. THE sacred plays of the Middle Ages often contained farcical, irreverent, and even lewd situations, while...

Drama of the Middle Ages  H practically a thousand years while the European theater was dark the Christian Church was unable to stamp out completely the festive element among the common people that manifested itself particularly at the spring planting time and the harvest season....

Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21  Clergy to secular entertainments Importance of the Corpus Christi Festival Cornish Miracle-plays Variety in dialect and metre in the English Mysteries and Miracle-plays Origin of the Moralities English love of Allegory Evolution of Tragedy and Comedy BIBLIOGRAPHY II. Secular Influences...

medieval imaginations: mystery plays  The text below gives a brief description of medieval mystery plays in general. For specific prose on medieval play episode please make a selection from the dropdown list. search for images via mystery play episodes Abraham and Isaac Agony in...

Medieval English Theatre  Theatre is an international refereed journal publishing articles on medieval and early Tudor theatre and pageantry in all its aspects, together with articles and records of modern survivals or equivalents. Material is not confined to England: all comparative material is...