An Outline of the Literature of the English Renaissance
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1497-c. 1577) wrote many interludes, e. g., Weather; Love; Four PP; Johan Johan; etc. J 4. Folk Plays (a) Certain folk customs and festivals contain dramatic elements, some of them of great age: Hock Tuesday Play; Sword Dance, etc., are examples. (6) Somewhat later are munerous plays dealing with St. George, Robin Hood, etc. Some of these still survive as mummer's plays in parts of England. See the interesting account of the Christmas nxummer's play in Hardy's novel, The Return of the Native. F...urther material on the subject of folk customs and plays may be found in Chambers' The Mediaeval Stage^ volume II. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google 60 Studies 1. The best illustration of the dramatic version of biblical story is to be found in the Brome play of Abraham and Isaac (Reprinted in Early Plays, R.L.S., and in Manly.) Study the way in which the author enters into sympathy with the main characters; his sense of the tragedy; the force of the climax; the realism of treatment and independence of slavish following of his source.
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