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A recording of a version of the Chester Mystery plays performed by a muti-racial, South African cast at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2001. The actors talk in a number of languages including English, Zulu and...
Performance extracts of Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, filmed during the Medieval Players’ 1988-89 tour. 1: Early scenes from the play. Emphasis is on the play as theatre, a text designed for actors and...
The ‘Parlament of Heaven’, the ‘Annunciation’ and the ‘Visitation’: a ceremonious, thoughtful, female-centred sequence in praise of the Virgin Mary and her role in the Incarnation. The medieval...
The Carpenters’ play of ‘The Resurrection’ and the Winedrawers’ play ‘Hortulanus’ ('The Gardener’: the appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalen in the Garden), as performed on pageant waggons in...
Shows the Medieval Players performing part of ‘The Annunciation’ from the Spicers’ Guild, and all of ‘Joseph’s Trouble about Mary’ from the Pewterers’ and Founders’ Guild from the York...
Medieval illuminations presented to illustrate attitudes to the fool in medieval Britain and his role in society. The discussion includes the character’s appearance in morality plays and in Shakespeare.
A television performance of the Chester mystery play. It tells how the aged Simeon is finally convinced by a miracle that Christ will be born of a Virgin, how he at last receives the infant Christ in the...
Based on Chaucer’s ‘Physician’s Tale’, in which a Roman father beheads his only daughter to save her from the lust of a wicked judge, this 1560’s ‘heroine’ play is a quintessentially English...
The archetypal Roman comedy, the ‘Andria’ of Terence, in its earliest English verse translation (c1500) with songs and dances. Filmed at Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire.
A recording of a production by the London University Dramatic society of the morality play ‘Mankind’, which was written around 1475. It is the earliest surviving ‘interlude’, showing evidence of...
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