The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. Hans-Jurgen Diller's major study, first published in German, seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of language in conventional modes of speech, prayer, address and dialogue. He looks at speech and dramatic form in the plays to reveal new insights concerning spatial and temporal orientation, the expression of emotions, and the relationships between characters on stage, between actor and audience, and between the dramatic world and the ordinary world outside it. His analysis offers new ways of understanding the relationship of vernacular drama to its liturgical antecedents, and new means of distinguishing stylistically between the cycles and between the groups of plays they comprise.
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The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. This major study seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of speech and dramatic form in the plays.
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The dramatic character of the Roman liturgy has been much discussed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bragging speech, quaeritis dialogue, liturgical drama, vernacular drama, short octaves, pageant stage, entry speech, revelation speeches, mystery cycles, medieval drama, medieval theatre, quem quaeritis, continuous correspondence, representing emotions, soteriological function, mystery stage, other cycles, liturgical offices, scenic representation, later strata, medieval plays, religious drama, medieval stage, liturgical ceremony, dramatis persona Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second World, Wakefield Master, York Realist, Mary Magdalene, Stanzaic Life, Corpus Christi, Middle Ages, Three Kings, First World, Old Testament, Regularis Concordia, Robert Weimann, Secunda Pastorum, Prima Pastorum, Second King, Third King, Chester Expositor, Chester Shepherds Play, Christ's Passion, Eleanor Prosser, Maria Jacobi, Visitatio Sepulcri, First Shepherd, Fleury Iconia, John the Baptist New!
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The dramatic character of the Roman liturgy has been much discussed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bragging speech, quaeritis dialogue, liturgical drama, vernacular drama, short octaves, pageant stage, entry speech, revelation speeches, mystery cycles, medieval drama, medieval theatre, quem quaeritis, continuous correspondence, representing emotions, soteriological function, mystery stage, other cycles, liturgical offices, scenic representation, later strata, medieval plays, religious drama, medieval stage, liturgical ceremony, dramatis persona Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second World, Wakefield Master, York Realist, Mary Magdalene, Stanzaic Life, Corpus Christi, Middle Ages, Three Kings, First World, Old Testament, Regularis Concordia, Robert Weimann, Secunda Pastorum, Prima Pastorum, Second King, Third King, Chester Expositor, Chester Shepherds Play, Christ's Passion, Eleanor Prosser, Maria Jacobi, Visitatio Sepulcri, First Shepherd, Fleury Iconia, John the Baptist New!
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- The Chester Plays: Part 2: Edited from the MSS. by Dr. J. Matthews (Early English Text Society Extra Series) (Vol 2) by J. Matthews on 7 pages
- The York Plays (York Medieval Texts. Second Series) by Richard Beadle on 6 pages
- Middle Ages by A. Clifford on 5 pages
- Fleury Playbook: Essays and Studies (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 7) by C. Clifford Flanigan on 5 pages
- Contexts for Early English Drama by Marianne G. Briscoe on 5 pages
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- The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642 by John D. Cox in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- New Approaches to European Theater of the Middle Ages by Edelgard E. DuBruck in Back Matter
- The Theory and Analysis of Drama (European Studies in English Literature) by Manfred Pfister in Front Matter
- 'Bring furth the pagants': Essays in Early English Drama presented to Alexandra F. Johnston (Studies in Early English Drama) by David Klausner on page 261
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