Medieval Theatre

The original Medieval plays that were short question and answer scenes performed during Easter were called what?

• tropes
• mysteries
• secular
• cycles

Plays about right and wrong are called

• intuitive plays
• morality plays
• fundamental plays
• church sanctioned plays

Miracle plays were plays about the

• Pope
• Cardinals
• Saints
• Protestants

Plays based on bible  stories, usually biblical history were

• Mystery Plays
• Kings Stories
• Bishops History
• Mundane Plays

The Passion Play addresses the last two weeks of whose life.

• Pope Leo II
• Jesus Christ
• King John
• Pontius Pilot

When theatrical performances were banned from the church what groups began performing outside the church?

• Minstrels 
• The Nobility
• The Inns
• Guilds 

Shorter morality plays that included more humorous characters and incidents were

• Moral Interludes
• Morality Shorts
• Morality Scenes
• Moral Interjections

Platforms built in churches or outside for staging were called ________________________.

• Farcical Interludes
• Liturgical Drama
• Mansions
• Cornish 

The two word term for all plays performed during Christian Mass: ________________________.

• Farcical Interludes
• Liturgical Drama
• Mansions plays
• Cornish plays

Other forms of theatre occurred outside the church and were known as ________________________.

• Farcical Interludes
• Liturgical Drama
• Mansions
• Cornish