Review for Quiz # 2

Study Guide & Key terms are posted www.professormalone.com

will cover Roman Theatre, Early Asian Performance- India

MedievalTheatre

Middle Ages

we can break up the middle ages into segments

the early Middle Ages

the High Middle Ages

dates depends on the art form we are considering...

source:

Dates to consider:

476 C.E. — The Fall of Rome

1054 C.E. — The schism between the East and West (specifically in Christianity) occurred in 1054- with the easter Christianity refusing to acknowledge the papacy (The Pope as supreme ruler/leader)

5th century (C.E.) — 1453:The Byzantine Empire – archived Greek and Roman culture (plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, as well as Roman works)

1453 — eastern Empire fell and works were taken to the West; these works influenced the Renaissance

The Roman Empire (the fall)

overrun by barbarians, form northern Europe

institutions destroyed

The Roman Catholic Church filled the role of “central” governing institution –

secular rulers subject to the church's influence/approval, etc.

Medieval society

agrarian (farming, tied to the land)

specific Feudal System:

lords, counts

lesser lords/landowners

vassals

serfs/peasants

High Middle Ages

around the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries C.E.

“rebirth” of towns due to trade and commerce

guild system- trades

eradication of feudalism

High Middle Ages

Spread of knowledge

Universities and Monasteries

Theology – main intellectual pursuit

Medieval Drama

Morality plays

Mystery or Cycle plays

Morality Plays

uses religious characters and themes to teach a moral lesson

uses allegories

Everyman

noun, 1.

a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one

subject under the guise of another.

allegory

source:http://www.dictionary.com/browse/allegory?s=t

Everymanby Anonymous

Everyman is the best known Morality play

productions happening even today

written in the 15th century by an anonymous writer

Flemish play called Elckerlijic, first printed in 1495 with an identical story- not known which play came first

Characters in Everyman

Everyman

God

Death

Messenger

Fellowship

Cousin

Kindred

Goods

Good-Deeds

Knowledge

Confession

Strength

Discretion

Five-Wits

Beauty

Angel

Doctor

National Theatre- London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_9czNg8rns

4 min 2 sec.

Lego Everyman- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM5Zwd427iU

3 min 53 sec.

Adaptations

Everyman at PCC (Portland Community College)

https://youtu.be/JkM8v0m3URg?t=6m29s

Death- messenger is summoned (scene)

Traditional Text- Alternative Staging with Puppets

Creating a Scenario

Each Group will create a new “summary” of the assigned scene

Each Scenario should “improvise” dialogue between Everyman and other characters

Each Scenario should follow the main action of the script but may adapt other aspects.. e.g. the language/slang spoken, modernizing, etc.

Each group will perform their assigned “scenario”- decide on who will perform which parts, there may also be a director in the group, or narrator- use your imagination

Groups

1- Rewrite Everyman & Death

2- Rewrite Everyman & Fellowship

3- Rewrite Everyman & Kindred & Cousin

4- Rewrite Everyman & Goods

5- Rewrite Everyman & Knowledge & Good-Deeds

Perform

Mystery or Cycle Plays

dramatized series of biblical scenes, based on Old and New Testaments

Short dramas

Entertaining, historical, and full of anachronisms

The Second Shepherd’s Play

Theatrical spaces throughout the town

Towns had their own scripts/cycles, i.e. Yorktown cycle, Chester cycle

Mystery or Cycle Plays

Creation to Doomsday

sponsored by the guilds

Noah and the Flood - shipbuilders, fishers, mariners, etc

Crucifixion: Carpenters

Gifts to Christ: Goldsmith