LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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a play of tragedy
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a play of comedy
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a play in fiction
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a supernatural religious drama
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Detailed explanation-1: -A miracle play presents a real or fictitious account of the life, miracles, or martyrdom of a saint. The genre evolved from liturgical offices developed during the 10th and 11th centuries to enhance calendar festivals.
Detailed explanation-2: -Miracle Plays, also called Saint’s Plays, were plays dedicated to the lives of various saints, rather than Biblical events. Just like Mystery Plays the Miracle play originated to enhance the liturgical services, and were later separated from the church.
Detailed explanation-3: -The plays having reference to the Bible were called Mystery Plays while those dealing with the lives of the saints were known as Miracle Plays. Basically they were given in Latin by the clergymen, and only the minor clerics and laymen who took part as side-actors spoke in English.
Detailed explanation-4: -A miracle (from the Latin mirari, to wonder), at a first and very rough approximation, is an event that is not explicable by natural causes alone. A reported miracle excites wonder because it appears to require, as its cause, something beyond the reach of human action and natural causes.
Detailed explanation-5: -A Raisin in the Sun. Aeschylus. Amiri Baraka. Antigone. Arcadia Tom Stoppard. August Wilson. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. David Henry Hwang. More items