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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MIRACLE PLAYS. I. Emergence of the Drama from the Mystery?Ecclesiastical Condemnation of Theatres and Players?Obscure Survival of Mimes from Pagan Times ? Their Place in Medieval Society. ? II. Hroswitha?Liturgical Drama.?III. Transition to the Mystery or Miracle Play?Ludi?Italian Sacre Rappresentazioni?Spanish Aulo ?French Mystire?English Miracle.? IV. Passage of the Miracle from the Clergy to the People?From Latin to the Vulgar Tongue? Gradual Emergence of Secular Drama.?V. Three English Cycles ?Origin of the Chester Plays ?Of the Coventry Plays?Differences between the Three Sets?Other Places famous for Sacred Plays.? VI. Methods of Representation ? Pageant?Procession ? Italian, French, and Spanish Peculiarities?The Guilds ?Cost of the ShowConcourse of People?Stage Effects and Properties.?VII. Relation of the Miracle to Medieval Art?Materialistic Realism?Place in the Cathedral?Effect upon the Audience.?VIII. Dramatic Elements in the Miracles?Tragedy?Pathos?Melodrama?Herod and the Devil.?IX. Realistic Comedy?Joseph?Noah's Wife?The Nativity ?Pastoral Interludes.?X. Transcripts from Common Life?Satire ?The Woman Taken in Adultery?Mixture of the Sacred and the Grotesque.?XI. The Art of the Miracles and the Art of Italian Sacri Monti. N.B.?The text of the Widkirk or Towneley Miracles will be found in the Surtees Society's Publications, 1836. That of the Coventry and Chester Plays in the Old Shakespeare Society's Publications, 1841, 1843. The gradual emergence of our national Drama from the Miracle, the Morality, and the Interlude has been clearly defined and often described. I do not now propose to attempt a learned discussion of this process. That has been ably done already by Markland, Sharp, Wright,.Collier, and others, whose labours have beenbriefly conde...