Medievalists.net » Morality Play http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Manifestations of the Grotesque and Carnivalesque Body in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/manifestations-of-the-grotesque-and-carnivalesque-body-in-ingmar-bergmans-the-seventh-seal/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/manifestations-of-the-grotesque-and-carnivalesque-body-in-ingmar-bergmans-the-seventh-seal/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:52:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42529 Manifestations of the Grotesque and Carnivalesque Body in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal Brian Gourley (School of English, Queen’s University Belfast)Queen’s University Belfast, Quest, Vol.1 (2006) Abstract Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) remains arguably his best-known work. If one talks of the existence of a genre of medieval film, and subsequently, the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/manifestations-of-the-grotesque-and-carnivalesque-body-in-ingmar-bergmans-the-seventh-seal/feed/ 0 English Mystery Plays – Staging Patterns and Orality Features http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/english-mystery-plays-staging-patterns-and-orality-features/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/english-mystery-plays-staging-patterns-and-orality-features/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:37:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38087 Medieval English theatre is a term covering a large body of plays, performances and theatrical activities. The entire period of medieval drama spans for five hundred years.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/english-mystery-plays-staging-patterns-and-orality-features/feed/ 0 Places to Hear the Play: The Performance of the Corpus Christi Play at York http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/places-to-hear-the-play-the-performance-of-the-corpus-christi-play-at-york/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/places-to-hear-the-play-the-performance-of-the-corpus-christi-play-at-york/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:50:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34957 At the beginning of the tradition, the pageants were linked to the religious procession on Corpus Christi Day. In the city og York this procession was organised by the Corpus Christi Guild as a separate event from the celebration of the minister.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/places-to-hear-the-play-the-performance-of-the-corpus-christi-play-at-york/feed/ 0 The Use of the Rhetorical Exordium in Middle English Drama http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/the-use-of-the-rhetorical-exordium-in-middle-english-drama/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/the-use-of-the-rhetorical-exordium-in-middle-english-drama/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:10:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33895 In this paper I wish to single out one group of Middle English writings, the mediaeval drama, to examine more closely the interesting ap­plications of the doctrine as exhibited in the "banns" of the miracle plays and of certain moralities, and in the traditional prologues, but es­ pecially in the more "organic" solutions arrived at by the authors of Man­ kind and Everyman.

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