Crash Course Dark Ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7CanyzhZg

1. Christianity

Skycake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55h1FO8V_3w

Syrian AramaicAbwoon d’washmayaNethgadash shmakhTeytey malkuthakhNehwey tzevyanach aykanna d’bwashmayo aph b’arhaHawvlan lachma d’sungana yaomanaWashboglan khauboyn (waktahayn)Aykana daph khnan shbwogan l’khayyabaynWela tachlan l’nesyna. Ela patzan minbishaMetol dilakhie malkutha wahaylaWateshbukhta l’ahlam alminAmeyn.

Translation

Source of wisdom and life,Carve out a space within us where you your Presence can abide.Fill us with imagination to be empowered on our mission.Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each of us needs to grow and flourish.Untie the tangled threads that bind us, as we release others from the entanglement of our past mistakes.Do not let us be diverted from our true purpose, but let us ever be aware.For you are power and fulfillment, as all is gathered and made whole once again and for all time.Amen.

M. Shani Illahan (translation)

2. Feudalism

“Unlike the cold bureaucratic relationships that bind modern man to abstract corporate and government structures, the feudal bond was extremely personal. In the widespread feudal bond of vassalage, for example, the vassal freely put himself under his lord whom he treated with all the duities and sentiments of a son to a father to whom he owed affection, counsel, aid, and fidelity. On his part, the lord was like a father obliged to give protection, help, security, and means of support. Each party, in its great need, was forced to appeal for help and resources beyond that of his own family. As a result, this forged bond was so strong that it often was comparable to, and frequently stronger than, the solidarity of the kinship group.”David HerlihyThe History of Feudalism

3. Plague

“They died by the hundreds, both day and night, and all were thrown in ditches and covered with earth. And as soon as those ditches were filled, more were dug. And I, Agnolo di Tura buried my five children with my own hands. And so many died that all believed it was the end of the world.”--The Plague in Sienna: An Italian Chronicle

“How many valiant men. How many fair ladies, breakfast with their kinfolk and the same night supped with their ancestors in the next world! The condition of the people was pitiable to behold. They sickened by the thousands daily, and died unattended and without help. Many died in the open street, others dying in their houses, made it known by the stench of their rotting bodies. Consecrated churchyards did not suffice for the burial of the vast multitude of bodies, which were heaped by the hundreds in vast trenches, like goods in a ship’s hold and covered with a little earth.”--Giovanni Boccaccio

Early Middle Ages500-1000

Retraction of Rome leaves Wars Famine Disease Vikings NO THEATER!

Mimes

Modern recreation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBlpMvCA0Gw

Scop

Brave Sir Robin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8&feature=kp

Christian Ceremonies

Liturgical Drama (and comedy)

Quem Quaeritis

Angels: Quem quaeritis in sepulchro, o Christicolae?(Whom seek ye in the tomb, Oh Christians?)

The Three Marys: Jesum Nazarenum crucifixum, o caelicolae.(Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified, O Heavenly Beings)

Angels: Non est hic; surrexit sicut praedixerat.Ite, nuntiate quia surrexit de sepulchro(He is not here, he is risen as he Foretold. Go and announce that he is risen from the tomb)

Quem Quaeritis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNwu9YHOvVI

Hrosvitha of Gandersheim Abraham Callimachus Dulcitus Gallicanus Paphnutius Sapientia

Theatrical Nuns

Hildegard of Bingen Catherine de Sutton

High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300)

Romanesque

Gothic

Liturgical Drama in High Middle Ages

Staging Conventions Carmina Burana

O Fortuna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiyKgeGWx0

Feast of Fools

FoF: https://www.netflix.com/watch/60022496?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2Cb60687c2629edb7cdd8acdeca2ca9fe50ff1beff%3Ae730c16b35b85d9369fe83d21b993b8779bfc84d

Late Middle Ages 1300-1500

Guilds Vernacular Religious Drama Secular Dramatic Forms

Vernacular Religious Drama

Mystery Plays Miracle Plays Morality Plays

Mystery/Cycle Plays

2012 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAKzf4zndmc Community involvement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8STHka1x3w&list=PL50395213DCBBC67C&index=5

Oberammergau Passion Play 1632-(present)

2010 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7uFUB2tl3A

Elements of Production Pageant

Master Actors Playwrights Stages Pageant

Wagons Hell Mouth

Morality Play

Secular Dramatic Forms Tournaments Mummers Confrerie de la Passion Farce Chambers of Rhetoric Interludes Street Pageants Tableaux Vivant

Quick Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNI7q6ABnc

Mummers

Mummers Parade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw052JysoM8

Confrérie de la Passion

Farce

Typical Subjects: Marital Infidelity Quarreling Cheating Hypocrisy General Human Failing Sex Digestion

Chambers of Rhetoric

Meanwhile in Byzantium

Suda

Islam

6 articles of Faith Pillars of Islam

Karagöz

Karagöz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8yziavrWuA Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYftvseVzuI