Theater -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
heȝe vpon a doune, þer al folk hit se may, a mile from þe toune, aboute þe midday, þe rode is vp arered; his frendes aren afered, ant clyngeþ so þe clay; þe rode stond in stone, marie stont hire one, ant seiþ ‘weylaway’!
heȝe vpon a doune, þer al folk hit se may, a mile from þe toune, aboute þe midday, þe rode is vp arered; his frendes aren afered, ant clyngeþ so þe clay; þe rode stond in stone,...
6. CHAPTER XVIII[_Bibliographical Note._—The liturgical drama is fully treated by W. Creizenach, _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_ (vol. i, 1893), Bk. 2; L. Petit de Julleville, _Les Mystères_ (1...
7. CHAPTER XIXThe ‘Twelve days’ of the Christmas season are no less important than Easter itself in the evolution of the liturgical drama. I have mentioned in the last chapter a Christmas tro...
8. CHAPTER XX[_Bibliographical Note._—The best general account of the vernacular religious drama of Europe is that of W. Creizenach, _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_ (vol. i. 1893), Books 2-4...
9. CHAPTER XXI[_Bibliographical Note._—The English miracle play has been often, fully, and admirably studied from the point of view of dramatic literature; perhaps less so from that of stage...
10. CHAPTER XXIIThe last chapter occupied itself mainly with the diffusion of the vernacular religious plays in England, with their organization, and with their part in municipal and village li...
11. CHAPTER XXIII[_Bibliographical Note._—The English moralities are well treated from a literary point of view in the books by Ten Brink, Ward, Creizenach, Pollard, Collier, Klein, Symonds, Bat...
12. BOOK IV13. CHAPTER XXIV[_Bibliographical Note._—The _Annals of the Stage_ in J. P. Collier, _History of English Dramatic Poetry_ (new ed. 1879), although ill arranged and by no means trustworthy, now...
14. CHAPTER XXV[_Bibliographical Note._—The literary discussions and collections of texts named in the bibliographical note to chap. xxiii and the material on the annals of the stage in that t...
15. xi. 512), and this again may be paralleled from the supreme position ofthe Earl Marshal in heraldry. At the head of the Earl of Lancaster’s minstrels in 1308 was an _armiger_. I only find this term again in the burlesque account of the ‘auncient mi...
16. c. 39, which is a more general decree against taking partin Gentile feasts. Burchardus, x. 15, quotes it ‘ex decreto Martialis papae.’ Martin of Braga ob. 580. His _Capitula_ are collected from the councils of Braga and the Great Coun...
17. ii. 267, and others ascribe the play in error to John Watson, bishop ofWinchester, and speak of a manuscript at Penshurst, which, however, is not mentioned in the account of the Penshurst MSS. in _Hist. MSS._ iii. app. 227. Probably the play is ide...
18. ii. The characters are abstractions with the Devil, a Messenger, andThere are reprints in Hazlitt-Dodsley, vol. i, and Manly, vol. i. The characters are curiously heterogeneous: Messenger, Barnabas, Ismael, Dalila, Eulalia, Iniquitie, Baily Erra...
19. viii. 259) which introduce episodes from the life of the Virgin previous[245] Creizenach, i. 70, quoting _Gesta Alberti Livoniensis episcopi_ (†1226) in Gruber, _Origines Livoniae_ (1740), 34 ‘Eadem hyeme factus est ludus prophetarum ordinatissimus,...
20. i. 302) has the following direction for the riding from the Tower toWestminster, ‘at the condit in Cornylle ther must be ordined a sight wᵗ angelles singinge and freche balettes yʳon in latene, engliche and ffrenche, mad by the wyseste docturs o...