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Definition of Miracle play
1. Noun. A medieval play representing episodes from the life of a saint or martyr.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miracle Play
Literary usage of Miracle play
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"... is a literary coinage of later times.3 We shall employ the term miracle play
to denote the popular mystery, and use saint's play for the French miracle. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Gradually something more refined, more in the fashion, than any miracle play,
was called for at courts and colleges. Then arose the moral plays, ..."
3. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... THE DEATH OF SPENSER CHAPTER I PRELIMINARIES — DRAMA Unbroken development of
Drama from miracle plays —• Origin of these — The Miracle-Play cycles, etc. ..."
4. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"Plays of Hilarius: miracle play on the Image of St. Nicholas. The personae
necessary are said at the outset to be that of a Heathen who deposits a treasure, ..."
5. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"... ENGLISH BIBLE—THE miracle play THERE is no literature, at least no important
literature, so largely indebted as the English to a collection of writings ..."
6. Shakespere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"Transition to the Mystery or miracle play—I.udi—Italian Sucre Rappresentazioni—Spanish
Auto —French ..."
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