miracle-plays

These verses were very much after the style of the text of the miracle-plays which were so popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, and as they contained the entire epitome of the Christian religion, the

Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

Very picturesque, too, must have been the miracle-plays at Easter, Christmas, and Epiphany; the great fairs; the solemn processions, especially at Rogation-tide, when the relics of the

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

This, considered one of the most remarkable earthworks in the kingdom, and of remote antiquity, was a remarkable amphitheatre 130 feet in diameter, with traces of seven tiers of seats; it has been used in modern times for the performance of miracle-plays.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

These rounded hollows, such as the famous Gwennap Pit, were formerly used for sports and dramatic performances; they played an important part in the social life of the past, and Cornwall had its own speciality in miracle-plays or interludes.

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Cornwall, and its best friends do not call it lovely; but there is a rather interesting Perpendicular church, with some earlier relics, and there is also a _plân-an-guare_, like the Planguary of Redruth -- an old-world amphitheatre, first used for sports and later for miracle-plays.

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Lexington and Concord were being fought, and that the Indians were intoning hymns and staging miracle-plays for their sun-god in

Fascinating San Francisco Andrew Y. Wood

The _sacre rappresentazioni_ corresponded, though with considerable differences, to the miracle-plays of England and France.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

The Saint-plays, the original miracle-plays, continued, and doubtless were staged in the same way as the Bible-plays.

The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

It would be interesting to show how other scenes connected with Christmas are handled in the English miracle-plays: how Octavian (Caesar Augustus) sent out the decree that all the world should be taxed, and learned from the Sibyl the birth of Christ; how the Magi were led by the star and offered their symbolic gifts; how the raging of the boastful tyrant

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

It became perhaps the most important centre of learning and literature in Cornwall, and was a nursery of the old miracle-plays or interludes -- some of which still survive in the

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