One play in this genre included a device for lifting an actress off the stage known as "the pomegranate"and is named for its performance at Elx. Several plays of this kind are preserved in the Hegge Manuscript.Many plays in this genre were performed as a procession on "pageant wagons," though an array of"mansions" was instead used in the 42-part N-Town plays. The Chester, York, and Wakefield cycles arepart of this genre, as are the Corpus Christi cycles. Following Innocent III's ban on clergy serving as actors,these plays were organized by appropriate guilds, such as b
One play in this genre included a device for lifting an actress off the stage known as "the pomegranate"and is named for its performance at Elx. Several plays of this kind are preserved in the Hegge Manuscript.Many plays in this genre were performed as a procession on "pageant wagons," though an array of"mansions" was instead used in the 42-part N-Town plays. The Chester, York, and Wakefield cycles arepart of this genre, as are the Corpus Christi cycles. Following Innocent III's ban on clergy serving as actors,these plays were organized by appropriate guilds, such as bakers depicting the last supper and shipwrightswho performed in Noah building the ark. For 10 points, identify this medieval dramatic genre whichshowed Biblical narratives, as opposed to stories of saints in miracle plays or allegorical instruction inmorality plays.
One play in this genre included a device for lifting an actress off the stage known as "the pomegranate"and is named for its performance at Elx.
mystery plays [or mystery cycles; or Corpus Christi cycles until it is read; do not accept "miracle plays" or "morality plays"]