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How did the Roman Catholic Church help the development of theatre through the Middle Ages?
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∙ 6y ago
We do not know a lot about the theater in early medieval times, but we can see a few examples of it. One is in commentary on the life of the Empress Theodora, wife of Justinian the Great, who lived from about 500 AD to about 548. She is said to have been a daughter of a bear trainer, who came from a brothel and supported herself by a combination of acting and prostitution. It seems a lot of women who acted were prostitutes in those days.
Mummers, who acted in plays in the early middle ages, drew their traditions from pagan practice, and kept those traditions alive, even to the present day, though they might not think about paganism as they work.
In the middle ages, the church provided alternative, morality plays, mystery plays, and passion plays. These were performed at or in a church and were intended to be morally instructive to the audiences. They had a long history and developed their own traditions.
At the end of the Middle Ages, the theatrical groups started to deal with more secular material, called manners plays, which dealt with issues not promoted by the Church. These plays drew on the traditions of the church oriented plays of earlier times, and in turn influenced such writers as Marlow and Shakespeare.
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