iturgical drama. Both the Old and New testaments of Christianity contain large spaces of time between events, such as the span of a week in which Jesus is sentenced, crucified, and resurrected, known as the station s of the cross. This couldn’t possibly be staged unless the empty parts, when Jesus walks for miles, were trimmed done or deleted form the drama. That is why episodic plot structures became acceptable.6.In medieval drama there were ways of staging a play. There was the stationary way, in which the play would be performed on a single wagon with as limited acting space and the entire wagon would be moved from town to town and everything needed for the production was part of the wagon. The processional way of staging a play was to have several wagons use a common acting space belonging to the town, and thus making the stages larger and more complex, making the productions more complex and with a larger cast.7.The weakening of the church was the main reason why the medieval drama to a decline. Inside the church, the Pope was losing power as urbanization brought the formation of states and provinces, thus the governors of these areas wanted individual power. This and many other crumbling within the church, including Henry VII forming the Anglican Church were partly responsible for the decline. People also began to abandon religious subject matter, the crucifixion, the birth of Christ, etc., and interest was revived into the Greek and Roman plays of the yesteryears. With this abandonment of religious matter also came the decline of international theatre, because Christianity was and still is a drama and/or topic that crosses cultures, as does any religion. With all of these simultaneous declines and a new interest in the classics, the Renaissance began.8.The appearance of established truths in theatre is the concept of verisimilitude. Under these ideals, all plays should be realistic, be underlined by morality, and...
