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The Second Shepherds' Play (also known as The Second Shepherds' Pageant) is a famous medieval mystery play which is contained in the manuscript HM1, the unique manuscript of the Wakefield Cycle. These plays are also referred to as the Towneley Plays, on account of the manuscript residing at Towneley Hall.
A reading of the story by Alan Maitland has been broadcast "nearly every Christmas since 1979" in Canada on the CBC Radio One news programme As It Happens. [1]On 14 December 2014, actor Nigel Anthony performed an original adaptation by Amber Barnfather of The Shepherd, with music and sound effects, at St Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force, in London.
This late 15th-century Flemish miniature shows the annunciation to the shepherds. The annunciation to the shepherds is an episode in the Nativity of Jesus described in the Bible in Luke 2, in which angels tell a group of shepherds about the birth of Jesus. It is a common subject of Christian art and of Christmas carols.
Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in the Chicago suburb of Fort Sheridan, Illinois. [5] He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr. (1917–1984), [6] but was called Steve Rogers.
The Shepherds' Play, 1989 Creation, 1991 Nativity, [4] 1991 The Number 14 (collective), 1992 Passion, 1993 Lysistrata, 1995 The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw (with John Millard), 1999 A Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol, 2000 The Coyotes' Christmas, 2001 The Blue Horse, 2007 The Emperor's New Threads (with Melody Anderson), 2007 Don Quixote (with Colin ...
There is widespread disagreement among scholars concerning the staging of the Wakefield Cycle, and of mystery plays in general. It is known that the cycle at York was staged on wagons that moved from place to place in the city, with multiple plays staged simultaneously in different locales in the city.
The Shepherd's Paradise deals with a mythical pastoral community dedicated to Platonic love, a refuge for unrequited lovers of both genders — "a peaceful receptacle of distressed minds." The Shepherd's Paradise is ruled by Bellesa, "beauty," who was certainly played by Henrietta Maria. The heroine of the piece is Fidamira.
The idea for L'enfance went back to 1850 when Berlioz composed an organ piece for his friend Joseph-Louis Duc, called L'adieu des bergers (The Shepherds' Farewell). He soon turned it into a choral movement for the shepherds saying goodbye to the baby Jesus as he leaves Bethlehem for Egypt. Berlioz had the chorus performed as a hoax on 12 ...