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1. Oberammergau Passion Play (Official Website. First link on the class's Board.)

1. Oberammergau Passion Play (Wikipedia article.)

/// LOOKING AT some excerpts from Laura Weigert's critical reading of Medieval Theatre Historiography: 

2. THE BOOK: French Visual Culture (Cover, Contents, List of Illustrations.)

2.0 French Visual Culture (Intro + Professional Overlaps_on manuscripts and the staging of processional drama.)

2.0 French Visual Culture (Christian critiques, prohibitions. Or how theatre came to be enclosed/housed in buildings.)

2.1 French Visual Culture (Jean Fouquet’s famous "Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia.")

JEAN FOUQUET'S FAMOUS "MARTYRDOM OF SAINT APOLLONIA." DESCRIPTION FROM ZARILLI'S TEXTBOOK (The Class's textbook):
A scene from a lost medieval play, The Martyrdom of St. Apollonia, as represented in an
illumination by Jean Fouquet in a French prayer book, the Livre d’Heures pour maître Etienne
Chevalier (c.1452–56). According to legend, Apollonia was once tortured by the extraction
of her teeth. Among the scaffolds around the platea or playing area are those representing
heaven (left) with its angels, and hell (right) with its devils and a hell-mouth into which the
damned were to be shepherded. The King’s throne is at the rear, and the figure with book
and baton may be the director, in ecclesiastical dress. The raised scaffolds seem to form a
semi-circle around the platea, but in this and other details we may be seeing the painter’s
compositional strategies for representation in a book.

JEAN FOUQUET'S FAMOUS "MARTYRDOM OF SAINT APOLLONIA." Weigert description: 
In the midst of the crowd of performers distributed in the central playing area are costumed devils and fools, whose exaggerated gestures and exposed genitalia combine the two components of a critique of the performers of the ancient past. The association between the sites of such performances and sexual promiscuity is, in turn, confirmed through the kissing couple situated just to the left of the hell mouth. The tortured body of the saint at the center of the miniature was the appropriate topic for a culture that delighted in spectacles of violence, like those Tertullian describes. And it is this tradition that the miniature of the saint’s torture draws on, as Gordon Kipling argues, rather than Fouquet’s knowledge and experience of contemporary dramatic performances. For generations of scholars, however, Fouquet’s miniature has been considered to represent the staging of a late medieval mystery play. p.23

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SPRING BREAK FREE WRITING:
1. Go out for a walk and take a pic to an urban space you envision as a potential stage for one of the plays we've read in class. Write a small paragraph explaining how you would use it.

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2.Built a meme that reflects on something you previously didn't know about theatre history or that illustrates your experience of the class so far.
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La niña, el muro y la grieta.

ZAPATISTAS
MURO
GRIETAS
QUIEN CREE QUE SABE
LA OTRA, EL OTRO, LE OTROA
LOS TERCIOS
LOS ALGUIENES