Mysteries and Miracle Plays

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• Miracle Plays and Mysteries — • These two names are used to designate the religious drama which developed among Christian nations at the end of the Middle Ages Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Miracle Plays and Mysteries     Miracle Plays a …   Catholic encyclopedia

• MIRACLE PLAYS —    were strictly speaking dramas founded on legends of the saints, as distinct from mysteries founded on scriptural subjects, but the name came to cover all those religious representations for the instruction of the people fostered by the Church… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• MYSTERIES —    sacred rites and ceremonies of stated observance among the Greeks and Romans in connection with the worship of particular divinities, to which only the initiated were admitted, and in which, by associating together, they quickened and… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Passion Plays — • The modern drama does not originate in the ancient, but in the religious plays of the Middle Ages, themselves an outcome of the liturgy of the Church. . . Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Passion Plays     Passion Plays …   Catholic encyclopedia

• York Mystery Plays — The York Mystery Plays are an English cycle of forty eight mystery plays, or pageants, which cover sacred history from the creation to the Last Judgement. These were traditionally presented on the feast day of Corpus Christi (a movable feast… …   Wikipedia

• Moralities (Morality Plays) —     Moralities     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Moralities     (Also: MORALITY PLAYS or MORAL PLAYS).     Moralities are a development or an offshoot of the Miracle Plays and together with these form the greater part of Medieval drama. They were… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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• John Bale — For the American baseball player use John Bale (baseball) John Bale (21 November, 1495 ndash;November, 1563) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in… …   Wikipedia

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