Concetti Chiave
- The origins of theatre in Britain are rooted in religious celebrations, initially performed within church naves before moving outside.
- Miracle plays dramatized biblical events, were performed by trade guild members on movable stages called pageants, and featured amateur actors.
- Morality plays featured characters representing human vices and virtues, performed by traveling actors from various associations.
- Interludes were short plays designed to entertain noblemen by blending serious and comic elements using disguise and vice.
- Narrative poems like "Canterbury Tales" tell stories in verse, featuring diverse societal characters on a pilgrimage, highlighting societal norms and life during the period.
Origins of Theatre in Great Britain
The origin of theatre in Britain were linked to religious celebration in fact these performances to places in the nave of church but son they moved out.
Miracle plays gave dramatic shape to the events of bible; they were staged by the members of trade guild on movable stages wagons called pageants. The actors were all amateurs.
Morality plays had characters who weren’t taken from the bible but were personification of the human vices and virtues. The actors were member of association and they wandered around from place to place.
Interludes and Their Purpose
Interludes were a short play to entrained the nobleman; it trade to combine serious and comic elements using to main technical expedient: the disguise and vice.
Lord Randal
Lord Randal is a popular ballad of an anonymous author. It is set to the house of Lord Randol in the afternoon when he returned form the greenwood and wanted lied down. He has been poisoned with eels fried by his true love and his hawks and his hounds died because ate his leavings. The mother asked him what leaved to his sister, to his brother and to his mother whit oral testament, while arsed his true love.
Narrative poem
Characteristics of the Narrative Poem
Narrative poem tells story in verse and contains lot of narrative elements like a setting in time and in place, the description of characters and the narrator is in first person. It have a lay outlook of the life; it is linked with the society of the time and describe their lifestyles. It have a didattic aim.
Canterbury tales deals with thirty people of every strate of society that do a pilgrimage to visit the Canterbury abbey. It is sett in spring when there is a rebirth of nature and of human spirit. The pilgrims meet in the Tabard Inn. The host of the in suggest that every pilgrims should tell four stories, two while they going to Canterbury and 2 while they come back.
The work consist of a The power of saint is presented as restorative of the sick, so the seasonal restoration of nature parallels a supernatural kind of restoration that knows no season.
Chaucer wanted to give an images of English society but he didin’t include the aristocracy or peasants because, the first, wouldn’t have travelled with commoners instead, the peasants, couldn’t afford the trip.
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