A Note on Latin Passion Plays

Italica ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 430
Author(s):  
Sandro Sticca
Keyword(s):  
Passion Plays

XXII.—The Palatine Passion and the Development of the Passion Play

PMLA ◽  
1920 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-483
Author(s):  
Grace Frank
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
General Development ◽  
Medieval Drama ◽  
Passion Plays ◽  
Passion Play ◽  
The Common ◽  
Religious Plays

The similarities of phrase, arrangement, and general development that are to be observed in so many mediæval religious plays in which divergences are nevertheless equally apparent have been variously explained as due to the common scriptural, liturgical, theological, or vernacular sources of these plays. Nor has the possibility that one play or cycle may have borrowed directly from another been overlooked. The paucity of early texts, however, contrasted with the relatively more abundant remains of the later highly developed plays and cycles, has tended to obscure the whole problem. With the recent discovery and publication of the oldest text of a complete French Passion play that has survived—the manuscript is dated from the beginning of the fourteenth century by Dr. Christ— new data has become available, and it can be shown, I think, from the relations existing between this so-called Palatine Passion and other French Passion plays that many of the puzzling resemblances in the medieval drama arise from the fact that the same texts often served as the basis for the representations given in different communities. These texts were at various times subjected to revision, and it is the successive alterations made upon them which have in many eases concealed their original connections.

Italian Renaissance Plays in the University of Toronto Library: Supplement III

1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-532
Author(s):  
Beatrice Corrigan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Passion Plays ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

The Editorial Board of Renaissance Quarterly is most kindly continuing its tradition in Renaissance News by allowing me to publish the third supplement to the Catalogue of Italian Plays 1500-1700 in theUniversity of Toronto Library (University of Toronto Press, 1961). Previous supplements appeared in RN16 (1963), 298-307, and 19 (1966), 219-228. The plays listed below illustrate a wide range of theatrical tastes, from Latin and Italian passion plays, medieval in tradition, to the later dominant vogue for musical dramas. In editions of the latter it became customary early in the seventeenth century to record architects, costumers, and performers, so that the printed plays are a valuable source for stage history. Scenery for four of these dramas was designed by Ferdinando and Francesco Galli di Bibbiena, then at the outset of their careers.

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