THEA241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Middle Ages, Hildegard Of Bingen, Hrotsvitha
22 Dec 2016
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Christianity forbid the theatre because many characteristics of theatre were deemed sinful. Nearly 1000 years with no theatres being built. Barbarians, christianity and disintegration of roman administrative structure. Rise of christianity - christian church opposed connection between theatre and pagan religions, and that evil characters portrayed on theatre and pagan religions, and that evil characters portrayed on stage taught immorality to audiences and sexual content was bad. Muslim scholars preserved manuscripts of classical greece and the. Early part of middle ages: traveling jugglers, minstrels and mimes. Short musical plays for the convent honoring saints and virgin mary. Vernacular drama - not in latin, but everyday speech of the people. England had a pageant master and performers used wagons as platform stages in the squares. These pageant wagons (like parade floats) or mansions were individual scenic units. Medieval practices of placing all scenes on stage before performance began. Used religious characters and themes to teach a moral lesson.
