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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: as it were in a mighty procession furnished the public with a complete play, find their parallels in Spain, where the so - called fiestas de los carros, carriage - plays or festivals, were arranged in a similar manner. However, about the mediaeval Spanish plays we possess scarcely any information, and what we know about these carriage- plays dates from a later time. It has been maintained in an earlier chapter of this bookx that the Japanese have a kind of procession-play which in many ways reminds us of the European mediaeval street mysteries. Nor are these procession-plays quite unknown in France, but as a rule the representations on these carriage stages only consisted of tableaux or mimic scenes of mysteries. In Chaumont, however, the people celebrated every fifth or sixth year a festival in honour of St John the Baptist, and on this occasion it became the custom to perform fragments of plays in connection with the procession all over the town. The Actors of the Mysteries?Whence they came?Participation of the Different Classes of Society?Children and Women as Dramatic Performers?Contracts and Penal Clauses?Toil and Dangers of the Performances?Costumes. Originating in the Church, the mediaeval plays drew their first actors from the priesthood itself. From the beginning of the mystery-plays and quite down to the period of their culmination, there existed no professional class of actors. It is true, jugglers and minstrelstravelled through the countries delivering their songs and stories, but dramatic representations performed by specially trained actors, who considered dramatic art as their principal work and their means of livelihood, were not known till the fifteenth century. 1 Vol. i. p. 50. And even if such a class had existed, they would scarcely have been entrus...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459011090
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459011090
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 191 gr


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