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Do the English Mystery Plays distort message of their biblical sources in adapting them for outdoor public performance?
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Assignment 2 Karina Malhotra 0227559 Medieval to Renaissance English Literature Seminar Tutor: Dr. Amanda Hopkins Do the English Mystery Plays distort message of their biblical sources in adapting them for outdoor public performance? (Refer to at least three plays.) The word 'Mystery' comes from the Latin word "mysterium," meaning "handicraft" or "office." Thus, the artisan or working guilds were called "mysteries," and hence when these guilds took over the performance of the religious dramas based on the bible, those plays came to be known as the "mystery plays." The tremendous flowering of such medieval drama had its roots in religion. There developed three kinds of dramatic forms: the mystery, miracle and the morality plays. The morality play developed about two centuries later than the mystery and miracle plays and is different in dramatic structure and purpose. These secular religious plays in turn developed out of even earlier forms of religious drama. These liturgical plays started...
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