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Miracle play   /mˈɪrəkəl pleɪ/   Listen
Miracle play

noun
1.
A medieval play representing episodes from the life of a saint or martyr.





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"Miracle play" Quotes from Famous Books



... THAT HARROWD HELL. The Harrowing of Hell was the mediaeval belief in the descent of Christ to hell to redeem the souls of Old Testament saints, and to despoil the powers of darkness. It is the subject of an old miracle play. ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... preach and preach well. Wordsworth declared be wanted to be considered a teacher or nothing. Mrs. Browning thought that poets were the only truth-tellers left to God. But Swinburne could not help a little preaching at any rate. His "Masque on Queen Bersaba" is an old miracle play of David and Nathan. His "Christmas Antiphones" are hardly Christian, though they are abundant in their allusions to Scripture. The first is a prayer for peace and rest in the coming of the new day of the birth of Christ. The second is a protest that neither God nor man has befriended man as ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee
... which could strike the mind through the senses was neglected. They offset tournaments by religious shows and pageantry, rivalled the attractions of the harp by sacred music, and to wean their flocks from the half dramatic entertainments of the minstrels, they invented the Miracle Play and the Mystery. The church forced herself on the attention of every man without doors or within, by the friars black or gray who met him at every turn, by the imposing monasteries which formed a central figure in every landscape, and ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman


Words linked to "Miracle play" :   dramatic play, play, drama


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