Zach AndersonErin James

Dayja TillmanDarian Williams

Where and Who???

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The Audience

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Innovations of the Era

Moving stages were created for the enjoyment of the common people

Famous Playwrights

Hrotsvitha was a canoness at the Bendectine Abbey of Gandersheim

And wrote all of her dramas in Latin

Famous Plays

This play is a representation of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion The Passion Play

This play is an interpretation of the story of when Jesus walked on water

Common Themes Most of these plays during the era were religious faith and backing

mainly because the Christian Church was the cause of the Western European Theater Boom in Medieval times.

Aimed to teach or reinforce Church doctrine

Melodramatic: good rewarded; evil punished.

God and his plan were the driving forces, not the characters.

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Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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