Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play: Crash Course Theater #10
Not long after drama reappeared in the unlikely home of European churches, the church decided again it didn't like theater. And so, the budding dramatic scene was kicked out into the harsh...
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Hey there, I’m Mike Rugnetta, this is Crash Course Theater, and today we’re going to circle up our pageant wagons and talk about the theater of the late Middle Ages: mainly mystery plays and morality plays. Judged by contemporary standards, these plays are… awkward. They’re episodic, kind of basic, and pretty chaotic in their mix of comedy, drama, and scripture. But some of the jokes are good. Like the ones about baby-eating [PAUSE] That’s more Yorick’s speed than mine - you love a morose groaner, dontcha, Bonehead? Mystery plays and morality plays were the first European plays to unite religious life and secular life in more than a thousand years. Whole towns pitched in to create them; whole towns arrived to see them. Those wagon wheels paved ...
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Hey there, I’m Mike Rugnetta, this is Crash Course Theater, and today we’re going to circle up our pageant wagons and talk about the theater of the late Middle Ages: mainly mystery plays and morality plays. Judged by contemporary standards, these plays are… awkward. They’re episodic, kind of basic, and pretty chaotic in their mix of comedy, drama, and scripture. But some of the jokes are good. Like the ones about baby-eating [PAUSE] That’s more Yorick’s speed than mine - you love a morose groaner, dontcha, Bonehead? Mystery plays and morality plays were the first European plays to unite religious life and secular life in more than a thousand years. Whole towns pitched in to create them; whole towns arrived to see them. Those wagon wheels paved ...
