Primitive, ancient and medieval drama

 Cuestiones tratadas en clase:

Some issues in Primitive, Ancient and Medieval Drama —relevant to the ancient and medieval roots of English drama:

- Proto-drama  - Ritual and drama -    Festivals and disguises  - Seasonal festivities - Origins of drama in Greece - The great Classical tradition- Greek tragedians and Roman comedians




An introduction to Greek drama:





A lecture on the origins of drama - Greek and Roman theatre (IIT Madras).


Los orígenes del teatro: From Ritual to Theatre:





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Una introducción a los orígenes del drama en YouTube. Y otro vídeo sobre los rituales y espectáculos cómicos primitivos en Grecia:






Hablamos de Edipo Rey a cuenta  de la Poética de Aristóteles. Y para quien no conozca el teatro de Sófocles, aquí hay una representación filmada de Edipo Rey, al estilo griego, con máscaras:

 

 

 

 

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- Roman popular drama 
- The Church's opposition to drama 
- Vague allusions to the survival of theatrical spectacles 



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An epitaph for an actor, Vitalis: http://garciala.blogia.com/2012/102402-an-actor-s-epitaph.php



- Drama in the Dark Ages -  The 'scops' and recitation - The continuation of popular traditions



The High Middle Ages:

Hrotsvitha's plays ;  Hildegard of Bingen, Ordo Virtutum

- Liturgy and drama

- Anglo-Norman plays: Babio, Jeu d'Adam, La Seinte Resurrection

- Tournaments, courtly love, and theatricality

- Minstrels and performance

- Carnival, Christmas, and Midsummer festivals.



Later Middle Ages:

- Corpus Christi and Mystery plays

-  The Cycles of York, Wakefield, Chester, East Anglia, Cornwall...

- Clerks' plays and saints' lives -  e.g. Mary Magdalene - Conversion of St. Paul

- Interludes and morality plays: The Castle of Perseverance - Everyman - Mankind

(description in Lydgate's Troy Book)

- Mummings and disguisings (Low and high class)



Uno de los más célebres morality plays—Everyman.  Subtitulado en inglés:




The NOAH play,  from the Chester cycle: https://youtu.be/Cn0pcYONuxc



York Mystery play: 'Crucifixion'







These medieval traditions survived well into the 16th c.