Thea Hist Test 2

900-1000; best seats at alter; 1000-12000 behind the choir, mansions between; no pews, audience moved; "resurection"

Moved to porch, then church yard, then townsquare; remain from church- alter, naive, choir; 22 stations; staged "luceren passion play"

wide, deep stage; eleborate facade; maintained year to year; sea with ship; 5 major locales; "velencinnes passion play"

Moveable, collapsable, easily set up; brought plays to people; booth stage/ curtainted platform- like setup; "cycle plays"

Raised earthen circle; single entrance, moat, smaller mansions; left my romans; cornish (cornwall) france; "Castle of perserverance"

raised platform; curtained behind; private house; "the wandering scholar of paradise"

Mystery, Miracle, Morality, interlude/farces

episodic, biblical

Church, pageant wagon

Village mystery play- "Fall of Lucifer"

Shows all, structure

Virgin Mary, saints

Pageant wagon, curtained platform

Miracle throughout and miracle at end- "Miracle of our lady"

Teaches playwrites to create fictional plots and dialougue

1. Confine subjects to events that could happen IRL
2. Fantasy and supernatural should be avoided (unless bibical)
3. no soliloquies and chorus
4. Violence offstage

1. teach a moral lesson
2. truth is corrective
3. show ultimate truth
4. if justice loses, god said so

1. generalities in drama are key to truth
2. should reveal commonality of human experience
3. truth revealed through pattern, not detail