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For information on how to proceed, first see the FAQ for blocked users and the guideline on block appeals. The guide to appealing blocks may also be helpful. Other useful links: Blocking policy · Help:I have been blocked You can view and copy the source of this page: ===Medieval theatre=== {{Main|Medieval theatre}} In the [[Middle Ages]], drama in the vernacular languages of Europe may have emerged from enactments of the [[liturgy]]. [[Mystery play]]s were presented in the porches of cathedrals or by strolling players on [[Calendar of saints|feast days]]. [[Miracle play|Miracle]] and mystery plays, along with [[morality play]]s (or "interludes"), later evolved into more elaborate forms of drama, such as was seen on the Elizabethan stages. Another form of medieval theatre was the [[Mummers Play|mummers' plays]], a form of early street theatre associated with the [[Morris dance]], concentrating on themes such as [[Saint George]] and the [[European dragon|Dragon]] and [[Robin Hood]]. These were [[Folklore|folk tales]] re-telling old stories, and the [[actor]]s travelled from town to town performing these for their audiences in return for money and hospitality.''Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'' J.A. Cuddon. (London: Penguin Books, 1999), p. 523. Mystery plays and miracle plays are among the earliest formally developed [[Play (theatre)|plays]] in [[medieval]] [[Europe]]. Medieval mystery plays focused on the representation of [[Bible]] stories in [[Church (building)|churches]] as [[tableau vivant|tableaux]] with accompanying [[antiphon]]al song. They developed from the 10th to the 16th century, reaching the height of their popularity in the 15th century before being rendered obsolete by the rise of professional theatre.{{cite book|last=Gassner|first=John|author2=Quinn, Edward|title=The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama|publisher=Methuen|location=London|year=1969|pages=203–04|chapter=England: middle ages|oclc=249158675}} [[File:ChesterMysteryPlay 300dpi.jpg|thumb|left|19th century engraving of a performance from the Chester [[mystery play]] [[play cycle|cycle]].]] There are four complete or nearly complete extant English biblical collections of plays from the late medieval period. The most complete is the ''[[York Mystery Plays|York cycle]]'' of 48 pageants. They were performed in the city of [[York]], from the middle of the 14th century until 1569.''A Glossary of Literary Terms'', M.H. Abrams. (Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace, 1999, pp. 165–66. Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in [[Cornish language|Cornish]] known as the [[Ordinalia]].[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26192/26192-h/26192-h.htm A Handbook of the Cornish Language, by Henry Jenner] A [[Project Gutenberg]] eBook;[http://www.magakernow.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=38590 A brief history of the Cornish language] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225172227/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=38590 |date=25 December 2008 }}. Having grown out of the religiously based [[mystery play]]s of the Middle Ages, the [[morality play]] is a [[genre]] of medieval and [[Tudor period|early Tudor]] theatrical entertainment, which represented a shift towards a more secular base for European theatre.Richardson and Johnston (1991, 97–98). Morality plays are a type of [[allegory]] in which the [[protagonist]] is met by [[personification]]s of various [[morality|moral]] attributes who try to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil. The plays were most popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.''Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'', p. 523. ''The Somonyng of Everyman'' (''The Summoning of Everyman'') (c. 1509–1519), usually referred to simply as ''[[Everyman (play)|Everyman]]'', is a late 15th-century English morality play. Like [[John Bunyan]]'s allegory ''[[Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678), ''Everyman'' examines the question of [[Christian salvation]] through the use of allegorical characters.''The Norton Anthology of English Literature'', Vol. 1 (2000), p. 445 and ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'' (1996), p. 775. Return to English literature. 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