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... play was called , not a MIRACLE PLAY but a MYSTERY ; because it dealt not with the miracles of saints , but with the great mysteries of Christianity drawn from the life of Christ . In what way they were at first represented is shown ...
... play was called , not a MIRACLE PLAY but a MYSTERY ; because it dealt not with the miracles of saints , but with the great mysteries of Christianity drawn from the life of Christ . In what way they were at first represented is shown ...
Page 105
... play . In the Chester play they spoke of eating meat with Lancashire bannocks , and of drinking Alton ale . Jest having been made over the rude feast , there floated through the air , from concealed choristers , the song . of the angels ...
... play . In the Chester play they spoke of eating meat with Lancashire bannocks , and of drinking Alton ale . Jest having been made over the rude feast , there floated through the air , from concealed choristers , the song . of the angels ...
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... play had been acted ) . There were no more of Shakespeare's plays printed in quarto during his life . Cymbeline was probably first acted about 1609 ; Coriolanus and Timon of Athens , 1610. The earliest notice of a performance of the ...
... play had been acted ) . There were no more of Shakespeare's plays printed in quarto during his life . Cymbeline was probably first acted about 1609 ; Coriolanus and Timon of Athens , 1610. The earliest notice of a performance of the ...
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