# The mediaeval stage, volume 1 (of 2)

Author: Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954

Genre: Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73000

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+mediaeval+stage%2C+volume+1+%28of+2%29+Chambers&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Some years ago I was thinking of a little book, which now may or may not ever get itself finished, about Shakespeare and the conditions, literary and dramatic, under which Shakespeare wrote. My proper task would have begun with the middle of the sixteenth century. But it seemed natural to put first some short account of the origins of play-acting in England and of its development during the Middle Ages. Unfortunately it soon became apparent that the basis for such a narrative was wanting. The history of the mediaeval theatre had never, from an English point of view, been written. The initial chapter of Collier’s _Annals of the Stage_ is even less adequate than is usual with this slovenly...

## Chapters

- [iii. 140, lays stress on the primitive sacrificial character of the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/30/index.md)
- [BOOK IV. THE INTERLUDE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/5/index.md)
- [i. 236, suggests that there was an earlier proclamation of July 22,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/20/index.md)
- [lxix. 143, on the struggle between two wards--the Sacred Way and the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/11/index.md)
- [vi. 3, the statement that Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, deposed](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/9/index.md)
- [viii. 317, summarizes accounts from fourteen villages, and gives](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/29/index.md)
- [i. 3):](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part iii, p. 1213; _Inhibicio Episcopi de ludis inhonestis_. The](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/14/index.md)
- [i. 308, the Lugnassad was probably the harvest feast, the Samhain the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/10/index.md)
- [xi. 8) quotes a note of the Rheims translation to the effect that in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/32/index.md)
- [x. 129, ascribes the fire customs of Europe to Aryans and the water](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/26/index.md)
- [VOLUME I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/1/index.md)
- [cxxxvii. 727) Σημείωσαι τὸν παρόντα κανόνα, καὶ ζήτησον διόρθωσιν ἐπὶ](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/31/index.md)
- [BOOK II. FOLK DRAMA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK III. RELIGIOUS DRAMA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK I. MINSTRELSY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mediaeval-stage-volume-1-of-2-73000/chapters/2/index.md)