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The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (Latin: Interludium de clerico et puella) is one of the earliest known secular plays in English, first performed c. 1300. [1] The text is written in vernacular English, in an East Midlands dialect that suggests either Lincoln or Beverley as its origin, although its title is given in Latin. [2]
Medieval theatre encompasses theatrical in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century. The category of "medieval theatre" is vast, covering dramatic performance in Europe over a thousand-year period.
Fulgens and Lucrece is a late 15th-century interlude by Henry Medwall.It is the earliest purely secular English play that survives. [1] Since John Cardinal Morton, for whom Medwall wrote the play, died in 1500, the work must have been written before that date. [1]
The 1522 cover of Mundus et Infans, a morality play. The morality play is a genre of medieval and early Tudor drama. The term is used by scholars of literary and dramatic history to refer to a genre of play texts from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries that feature personified concepts (most often virtues and vices, but sometimes practices or habits) alongside angels and demons, who ...
From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP. ISBN 0-674-32500-1. Farmer, John S, ed. 1910. The History of Horestes. By John Pickering. Tudor facsimile texts ser. Amersham: John S. Farmer. Farnham, Willard. 1936. The Medieval Heritage of Elizabethan Tragedy.
James Norton looks set to defend the Anglo-Saxon throne from French invader Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the first glimpse from upcoming medieval drama series “King and Conqueror.” Norton plays ...
Cover page of The Four PP by John Heywood showing the three chief characters Pedlar, Pothecary and Pardoner amid the lying competition.. The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler or The Four PP (pronounced "pees", plural of the name of the letter P) is an interlude by John Heywood written around 1530 that relates the tale of ...
Attention to the Medieval Mystery plays began to grow during the early 1800s, after their reference and publication by William Hone and James Heywood Markland. Notably, poet Lord Byron wrote the plays Cain and Heaven and Earth: A Mystery as modern version of medieval dramas on similar subjects.