Friday, October 24, 2008

Mystery Plays and Morality Plays

This is some introductory notes, to the era before Shakespeare's theatre was rising. Mystery plays, or morality plays are written under religious,Christian ways, and usually portray a biblical story, or a religiously moral story. A good example on such plays can be "The second Shepherd's Plays". Plays yet became more secular, less moral in Shakespeare's time' and as it does, it resembles how people would go to the theatre, instead of going to "Church". This movement is then lead 1576 when the plays went inside, creating the first "Theatre". Yet they put playhouses outside the city, and in the suburbs. Hence making theatre a very marginalized institution, constituted by using only men and boys.

in relation to this definition "Interregnum", is an important term, and that is where there was no drama or theatre houses [the era of common wealth]after king James (1642-1660), up until the coming of Charles II.


Tara Kangarlou

Aaron Gorelik 1F

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