miracle play

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miracle play

A medieval drama portraying events in the lives of saints and martyrs.

miracle play

(Theatre) a medieval play based on a biblical story or the life of a saint. Compare mystery play

mir′acle play`

a medieval drama based on a Bible story, a saint's life, or the like, usu. presented as part of a series or cycle. Compare morality play, mystery play.

[1850–55]

miracle play

A medieval religious drama that re-enacted miraculous incidents from the lives of saints on the day dedicated to them.

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miracle play - a medieval play representing episodes from the life of a saint or martyr

drama, dramatic play, play - a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"

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miracle play

n (Theatre) → miracolo

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For the Miracle plays did not spring all at once to life, they began gradually, and the beginnings can be traced as far back as the ninth century.

In those early days Latin was the tongue of the Church, and the Miracle plays were at first said in Latin.

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A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which

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On the last fourth down that was the miracle play at the end, the first two guys on our progression were wide open," Helfrich said.

Offense is kicking into gear

Dialogos Ensemble --Swithun--A Medieval Miracle Play.

Calendar

Enda's and to his experimentation with a range of dramatic genres, including the miracle play and the pageant.

Patrick Pearse as amateur dramatist

Expecting a stern examination at the scrum this weekend, Healy warned Ireland not to throwProp Cian Healy everything at producing a miracle play, adding: "We've got to stick to our plan.

Healy forced to battle for Ireland shirt

The members of the church performed what might be described as a modern miracle play in the medieval tradition, entitled By Thy Glorious Resurrection.

Looking back

The appearance of a reliable edition of the Liber secundus sancti Andree, an Occitan-language miracle play written in 1512 by Marcellin Richard about the martyrdom of the apostle Saint Andrew, will fill a lacuna left open by Fazy's 1883 edition, to which Sibille refers, bluntly, as "very mediocre" (37) and "bad" (41).

La Passion de Saint Andre

Surely athletes--and the literature about them--are haunted by vulnerability, every feat, every miracle play, every new horizon broken out by every dazzling new prospect is shadowed by potential tragedy.

Sidney Jacobson. Pete Reiser: The Rough-and-Tumble Career of the Perfect Ballplayer

Actors, 1941-42, is second-best, but it looks stiff by comparison, more medieval miracle play than Surrealist vision.