Morality plays | | general acting area, adjacent to the mansion. |
Chronical plays | | productions based on historical events |
Passion Play | | The life of Joan of Arc, the French Heroine who rescued France during its darkest moments of the Hundreds Years War. |
Miracle plays | | Play One- about Christ or from the Old Testament |
William the Conqueror | | Play Four- concerned with the last week in the life of Christ |
Cycle | | an entire sequence of plays; they were short plays depicting religious history from creation through dooms |
Joan of Arc | | mayor of the palace of the Merovingian Frankish kings, son of the mayor Pippin II and his second wife or concubine Alpaida. |
Interludes- | | series of acting stations placed in a line |
Pagent wagon | | Short humorous sketches preformed between serious plays |
Charels Martel | | Play Three- didactic allegories, often of common man’s struggle for salvation |
mansions | | highly artistic spectacles glorifying the nobility that were written and preformed for their entertainment. |
Masques | | Play Two- lives of saints, historical and legendary |
platea | | Robin Hood is a fictional character believed to have been Fulk FitzWarin. Read whether he existed and what happened to him. |
Mystery plays | | William the Conqueror is perhaps the most important figure of the Middle Ages. His rule marked the massive construction of castles in medieval Europe. |
Robin Hood | | Stage on wheels divided into two levels, the upper level was the platform stage and the lower level was curtained off and served as a dressing room. |