Theater Class/Theaterklasse

In her online live theater class, Flora studied Greek and Medieval theater last week.  She had to construct a Greek mask and we listened to a very interesting podcast as part of her homework.

Für ihre online live Theaterklasse mußte Flora letzte Woche etwas über das Theater der Griechen und im Mittelalter lernen.  Sie mußte eine griechische Maske basteln und dann haben wir einen interessanten Podcast gehört, der Hausaufgabe war.  

Gregory Roper, a professor of literature at the University of Dallas, joins the podcast to discuss medieval “mystery plays” (also called “miracle plays”). In England these plays, often grouped together in cycles spanning all of salvation history, were performed by town guilds for the festival of Corpus Christi. This tradition, which developed out of the liturgy, could be said to represent the revival of drama in Europe, and was an important influence on the Elizabethan theatre. Shakespeare referenced this tradition a number of times in his plays.

The plays, which served a partly didactic purpose, are full of theological typology, but also delightful verse, earthy humor, and a thought-provoking use of anachronism.