Feist of Fools 바보 축제 p. 150 - a festival of reversed rank(position)
-In reality, carnivals such as Rio Carnival might be originated by Christian Festival. It was just a deviation permitted for a moment, which reconfirm authority.
-Quasimodo(main character of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame) appeared to the world for the first time in the Feist of Fools.
10C
Liturgical (300 years)
13C
Mystery
15C
-Greek Plays were public activities and free as well, and Roman Plays were same and even it was considered to be a duty of nation to provide people with breads and circuses. Liturgical and Mystery which were provided by church and guild, were not national activities but still activities of each community. Those 2000 years were the time that play was the only entertainment people could enjoy. But since Renaissance, there has been a charge for a play for nearly 500 years.
Minor Forms of play in the Middle Ages (which only aristocracy could enjoy with paying?)
Interlude
-Wandering theatre troops which couldn't attend to public performances, could be invited to private feast and we call the play they performed there Interlude.
Morality
-elite invited acquaintances to own place and performed a play about the faith and we call it Morality
-used metaphorical names of characters such as everyman, greed, wealth, etc and exaggerated figures fitted to their names
-shows bad ones' temptation and good ones' advice and finally ends in good angels' victory
-worries and conflicts were shown for the first time
-during the period around Wars of the Roses (dissension between York and Lancaster) it degenerated as? performers played York as a bad angel when they were invited to Lancaster and played Lancaster as a bad angel at parties of York
End of Medieval Play
-at the end of several appeals by nobles, queen Elizabeth banned religious drama
-churches and mysteries could live their lives without play but wandering troupes
-there were still techniques which could make spectacles and players but materials without religion
15C-16C? a period of transition from later Middle Ages to early Renaissance
-there were Renaissance appeared from Italy and Britain had their new materials to play
-vestiges of british Middle Ages and italian Renaissance combined to british Renaissance
-british writer took their writing materials outside (Shakespeare wrote stories of Italy and others distinguishingly... Romeo and Juliet - Italy, Hamlet - Denmark...)
-when Shakespeare worked on, there were no more vestiges or confusions from Middle Ages (he wrote anthropocentrically not like earlier writers)
By reason that Latin was more familiar than Greek to people in Renaissance, Roman play had more influences.