ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mystery Play, Protestant Reformation, Avocation
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Key term: guild: fraternity, brotherhood, anglo-saxon, mystery play cycle: the sequence of plays, dialect, early modern, renaissance, tudors print, humanism (cid:498)problem of succession(cid:499) This particular genre of theater, developed and stage during the medieval period was staged in guilds. The soldiers reveal their job to be (cid:498)incompetent(cid:499) in ways that allude to the wrongness in the crucifixion of jesus. Jesus: speaks on the cross: satire: induces laughter to one of the most serious scriptures ever written. Developments: the language developed by norms of pronunciation and usage, scoop author. The renaissance: late 15th to mid late 17th c. Key terms: political: from the war of roses (york and lancaster could each lay a claim to the crown) (problem of succession) to the tudors battle of. Bosworth field, 1485: material: from manuscript to print frist printing press in london, religion: the protestant reformation, formal: new literary forms adapted from classical and continental sources, linguistics: from avocation to vocation.