| 单词 | mystery play |
| 例句 | As with Gothic churches, which had plazas for the outdoor performance of sacred mystery plays, the mounds had greens before them: ritual spaces for public use. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But right on the money, somehow, is a medieval mystery play accompanied by a motley assembly of early-form lutes, flutes and bagpipes. First-rate ‘Second Shepherd’s Play’ tops the Christmas class 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z For "Democracy" is ultimately a mystery play, in which the central enigma is human identity itself - a puzzle that only expands and deepens when set upon a world stage. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z Sometimes “The Woman in the Window” seems like a freshly warped version of an old mystery play, with its repeated entrances and exits on a single stage. Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Sheen will also appear with the newly formed National Theatre of Wales next April in his native Port Talbot in a version of the area's traditional mystery plays created with poet Owen Sheers. Sheen for Hamlet 2010-05-13T07:34:00Z This is “Pelléas” not as a mystery play, but as an unsparingly forceful drama. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In that case, Eagleton points out, "we would be forced to deny the value of a great many literary works, from ancient pastoral and medieval mystery plays to sonnets and folk ballads". How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton When I was very young, I used to think that a mystery play must be a tremendously exciting thing, full of murder and enigma and terror. The mystery of theatre's missing detective plays 2011-07-28T13:34:14Z He was drunk and I told him all about medieval mystery plays. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z Photograph: Neil Kendall The great cycles of medieval mystery plays were based on the 15th-century equivalent of product placement, as local tradesmen adapted the portion of the Bible that best advertised their skills. Chester Mystery Plays – review 2013-07-02T14:36:00Z In its own way, it's a great medieval mystery play. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z Ancient inscriptions suggest the theater hosted literary, musical and athletic competitions and even mystery plays. Looking to Past Pandemics to Determine the Future of Theater 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The poet and playwright Tony Harrison will write a new version of the medieval mystery plays to be performed in August. Shakespeare's Globe puts King James Bible centre stage for anniversary 2011-02-10T20:12:41Z You can find mystery plays from Orson Welles at cjkell.squarespace.com; classic drama at classicdrama.libsyn.com; and kids' entertainment featuring Space Heroes at spaceheroes.libsyn.com. Don't touch that dial: the threat to radio drama 2010-06-20T20:45:00Z Of the mystery plays that crowd anthologies, many – like The Spanish Tragedy, Macbeth, The Adding Machine, Desire Under the Elms, or Rope – aren't mysteries at all. The mystery of theatre's missing detective plays 2011-07-28T13:34:14Z He has written history plays, mystery plays, biographical plays, political plays, science fiction plays and plays composed of gleefully bad grammar. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z ‘Abyss’ In the German playwright Maria Milisavljevic’s poetic mystery play about a missing woman, any fixed sense of self – in terms of nationality, personal history and relationships familial and sexual – is under siege. Theater Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The summer fete featured special guest and Archers fan Colin Dexter upstaged by Lynda's murder mystery play and its array of terrifyingly hackneyed performances. A month in Amdridge 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z “When theater returns it must return with danger. I think of roving bands of actors, post-plague, performing mock mystery plays on the street that lead, eventually, to a theater where people assemble.” 20 Theater Figures on How to ‘Revolutionize’ Their World 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Several other towns had their own mystery plays, but the manuscript from York is the most complete version to have survived and is now kept at the British Library. Mystery Plays resurrected in York 2012-08-09T09:20:01Z Chester has the most completely preserved cycle of mystery plays, and Dale has exerted a decisive hand editing three days' worth of drama into three hours. Chester Mystery Plays – review 2013-07-02T14:36:00Z At some point, the mystery play date arrives. The Boy King of YouTube 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z At Village Theatre, he directed several shows, including the mystery play “Sleuth.” Martin Charnin, Tony-winning ‘Annie’ lyricist who was active in Seattle-area musical-theater scene, dies at 84 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z ‘The Second Shepherd’s Play’ Low comedy evolves into a deeper seasonal spirit in this medieval mystery play, adapted by Mary Hall Surface in 2007 and performed in harmony with the Folger Consort. Holiday Happenings: Celebrate the best of the season in food, drink, movies, music and more 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z He may even have visited the city as a boy to witness its famous mystery plays. Shakespeare's birthday: Where can you get close to the Bard? - BBC News 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z In many countries, those stories were major themes in the so-called mystery plays that laid the foundation for modern European drama. The Forgotten History of Mary’s Gospels 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Whodunnits rely on the ending being kept secret, and nowhere is this better known than with Agatha Christie's long-running murder mystery play The Mousetrap. Lifting the lid on spoilers - BBC News 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The Isango Ensemble’s repertoire embraces opera, poetry, literature and the 12th century cycle of mystery plays based on the Bible. South African ensemble takes on Mozart, Shakespeare 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The story of Prosperine, another form of Diana, was the subject of heathen plays, and down to the sixteenth century the character appears in religious mystery plays as the recipient of much abuse. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z At Shrewsbury the municipal authorities endeavoured to keep up the mystery plays by means of contributions from the various companies. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z The mystery plays of the Basques were famous once, and although these naive dramas are now mainly confined to Christmas and Easter, who could say that we might not chance on some saint-day fragment? Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Towards the end of this century mystery plays were not infrequent, though not in anything like the developed form nor popular character which they acquired during the Thirteenth Century. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z In “Bones and Silence,” Dalziel is cast as God in a medieval mystery play. Reginald Hill, Prolific Writer of Crime Novels, Dies at 75 2012-01-18T00:44:37Z It was treated solemnly, dreamily, phlegmatically, as a sort of cross between Maeterlinck and a 'mystery play.' Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z In November 1501 Gringoire was in Paris directing the production of a mystery play in honour of the archduke Philip of Austria, and in subsequent years he received many similar commissions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z It was the modesty of the people before whom Adam in the Chester mystery play was required by the stage directions to "stand nakyd and not be ashamyd." An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z It must not be forgotten that the only example of these mystery plays which is still left to us is the Passion Play at Oberammergau, and that is one of the world's greatest spectacles. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z At this time also secular dramas began to take the place of mystery plays. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The spirit of the mystery plays did not venture beyond the bosom of the Church which patronized them. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The subject and the general span of the action went back to the popular mystery play; and Milton at first planned out Paradise Lost as such a play, with certain elements of classic tragedy embodied. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The Bacchae, being from one point of view a religious drama, a kind of "mystery play," is full of allusions both to the myth and to the religion of Dionysus. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z It is this feature that is especially deserving of attention with regard to these mystery plays which began in the Thirteenth Century. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z It is a mystery play inasmuch as it introduces scenes from the Life of Christ. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Written in a clear and crisp style, the story abounds with thrilling situations, in which love, jealousy, intrigue and mystery play an important part. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z The famous Cherry-tree Carol, “Joseph was an old man,” is based on an old legend which is related in the Coventry mystery plays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The general literary peculiarities of the miracle and mystery plays do not differ greatly from those of other compositions in verse of the same time which have been already described. A Short History of French Literature It might perhaps be thought that these mystery plays would not furnish any great amount of entertainment for the populace, especially after they had seen them a certain number of times. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z In the middle ages the chief of these works was heresy, and the dragon of the medieval church legends and mystery plays was usually heresy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Besides, their affairs had now become as exciting to us as a mystery play. The Brightener Subsequently the term is applied to mystery plays with a happy ending. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Jordantown had become the stage upon which a mystery play was being enacted with all the farcical features of a comedy. The Co-Citizens The boys were learning the old mystery play of St. George and Beelzebub. The Rainbow In the medieval mystery plays, Noah’s wife was always represented as a scolding vixen. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford The Breaking Point is, from one standpoint, a first class mystery story; and then there is that enormously successful mystery play, written by Mrs. Rinehart in conjunction with Avery Hopwood, The Bat. When Winter Comes to Main Street The doctrine of transubstantiation, which was as yet recognized by law, was held up in scorn in ballads and mystery plays. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 The passion play given every ten years at Oberammergau, Bavaria, is a survival of the old mystery play. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The Spaniards also developed a new form of the mystery play,—the autos sacramentales. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals No well-fed person need ever quite expect to understand one of Sir J. M. Barrie's mystery plays at a single sitting. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 But then mystery plays always are like that, and this is a jolly good one of its kind—a kind which it pains me, as a superior person, to confess that I liked enormously. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 It is reasonable to suppose, however, that they were 'mystery plays' or 'moralities.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts During the Middle Ages the drama was represented by miracle and mystery plays dealing with sacred history. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide For a time it had been exciting, absorbingly interesting, to know himself behind the scenes of this mystery play which had all the world for an audience. The Sins of Séverac Bablon General Causes and Evidences of the Decay of the Gilds.—An analogous narrowing of the interests of the crafts occurred in the form of a cessation of the mystery plays. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England A whole series of mystery plays followed from the fruitful pen of Simeón Polótzky. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The doctrine of Transubstantiation, which was as yet recognized by law, was held up to scorn in ballads and mystery plays. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 The author a little further on calls attention to the fact that the mise en sc�ne of the old mystery plays had combined splendor with na�ve poverty. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Such is the Christmas of popular tradition, the Nativity as it is reflected in the carols, the cradle-rocking, the mystery plays of the later Middle Ages. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan In the last half of the sixteenth century the mystery plays seem to have come finally to an end. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Fiona Macleod" from Mr. Yeats, in which he suggests: "The plays might be almost in some cases modern mystery plays. Irish Plays and Playwrights Lighter airs of the popular sort, such as were sung between the acts of the “mystery plays,” were subsidized by Luther, who wrote compositions and translations to their measure. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes This appeared in the public processions and the performances of plays, the morality and mystery plays of mediæval England. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century I do not suppose that anything of the kind has been staged since the days of the mediæval mystery plays. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism A most ingenious mystery play worked out, however, in terms of modern theatrical realism. Class of '29 In the mystery play the scene of this act is laid before Orleans. Joan of Arc The Eight Terrible Ones and their attendants are represented by grotesquely masked figures in the dances and mystery plays enacted by Lamas. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 The fifteenth century saw the full development of the religious mystery plays, and the allegorical morality plays, which with their comic interludes had become popular from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century It was, in fact, a mystery play designed by the High Priests of the Communist faith to instruct the people. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism The most ambitious of these is "The Dream of Gerontius," a sort of mystery play which Sir Henry Taylor used to compare with the "Divine Comedy." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century There can be little doubt that whoever wrote the First Part of King Henry VI. had seen the mystery play of the Siege of Orleans acted in that town. Joan of Arc A mystery play was enacted in him,—each sonnet is a scene. Emerson and Other Essays They show interesting likeness to the miracle and mystery plays of the Middle Ages. Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India Still they act the mystery plays with instinctive fullness of interpretation, they sing strangely in the mountain fields, they love make-belief and mummery, their processions and religious festivals are profoundly impressive, solemn, and rapt. Twilight in Italy It contained a piece within the piece, in the fashion of an old mystery play, with scenery consisting of the mouth of hell, painted red and surmounted by a blue paradise starred with gold. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Some of the entries are very curious, and relate to the sports and pastimes of our ancestors, the mystery plays, and church ales, which were all under the patronage of the churchwardens. English Villages They tweaked his tail on carven misericords, and in the mystery play he was invariably cast for the clown. Nonsenseorship And then, Alan Hawke joyously realized how easily the light-headed world can be fooled to the top of its bent by the hollow trick of a bit of mystery play. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Was she not the wife of the best captain they had ever had, and had she not knelt like one of the holy saints in a mystery play? Stray Pearls She saw it all in a mystery play long long ago--when a Hand came out, and put in the stars and sun and moon.' The Herd Boy and His Hermit These societies spread rapidly through the country, and from rhyme the members passed to the mystery plays, and to the beginnings of the drama. The Interdependence of Literature The people have always wanted to see stage representations of Bible incidents; witness the mystery plays of the Middle Ages and the Passion Play at Oberammergau to-day. A Second Book of Operas Heretofore there had been no other theatrical exhibitions than those which the people performed on the high festivals of the church, the morality and the mystery plays. Henry VIII and His Court Davie responded that it was like a pasteboard town in a mystery play, and that he longed to strike at it with his good broadsword. Two Penniless Princesses Each had made his choice; one, the bonfire; another, the maypole; another, the mystery play. Notre-Dame De Paris He must have wanted, I think, to give himself a representation of some sacramental act, of some mystery play of the middle ages. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels This crowd had been waiting since daybreak for three things: noonday, the embassy from Flanders, the mystery play. Notre-Dame De Paris |
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