Wakefield Master
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'Shepherds' delivers a stunning gift; Comic relief moves the tale of the birth of Christ.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(THEATER)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...So much for the Wakefield Master. With its deep grounding...theology, The Second Shepherds' Play is a welcome alternative...author of The Second Shepherds' Play, however - aware...WHAT: The Second Shepherds' Play WHERE: The Folger...
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With Medieval 'Shepherds,' Folger Tends to Delight
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Folger Consort's staging of "The Second Shepherds' Play" qualifies as a lovely seasonal surprise...life for its audience. "The Second Shepherds' Play," for instance, weaves the story of...growing brood. The tone of "The Second Shepherds' Play" shifts quite suddenly in its latter...
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Flocking to the Folger to Fluff Up a Medieval Relic
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...director and adapter of "The Second Shepherds' Play." To reinvigorate this medieval mystery...Drama project. And yet, "The Second Shepherds' Play" has a boisterous energy that defies...or the authorship -- of "The Second Shepherds' Play" itself). Mystery plays were often...
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Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master's Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2004; ; 568 words
; Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master's Dramatic Art: A Drama of...cycle usually ascribed to the Wakefield Master. The book works well as a critical...plays thought to be by the Wakefield Master. Despite the critical modishness...
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TROUPE TO PERFORM "SHEPHERDS' PLAY' SUNDAY.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 12/12/2001; 42 words
; The Poplar Ridge Players will present the 23rd annual season of the Shepherds' Play beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday at the United Ministry Church in Aurora. Another performance will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 23 in the Friends Meeting House on East Poplar Ridge Road in Poplar Ridge.
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Medieval German story to be re-told.
Newspaper article from: Hebden Bridge Times (Hebden Bridge, England); 12/20/2007; 47 words
; THE medieval German nativity story - The oberufer Shepherds Play - is being re-told in Hebden Bridge on Saturday, December 22. It will be performed with puppets and carols at the Rudolf Steiner...
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Peter Happe, The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...area. The material attributed to the Wakefield Master also seems to be of fifteenth-century...comedy (especially in the work of the Wakefield Master), spectacle, group characters, and...and (especially in the work of the Wakefield Master) its sympathy with the grievances...
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Deck the halls? Mais non, it's just not French!
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 12/8/2006; ; 428 words
; ...Clovis with 3,000 warriors. But that was a very long time ago. I have been searching for weeks for a pastorale - the rural shepherds' play - and, more importantly, trying to find that great British institution, the office party. "Bof," my husband replies - that...
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Warren Edminster. The Preaching Fox: Festive Subversion in the Plays of the Wakefield Master.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Festive Subversion in the Plays of the Wakefield Master. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiii...fifteenthcentury British playwright known as the Wakefield Master, Professor Warren Edminster's The...a speculative conclusion about the Wakefield Master's ideological leaning (the reader...
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George Mason University ho ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/14/2007; 454 words
; ...The Folger Consort early music ensemble stages "The Second Shepherds' Play," a medieval mystery starring Holly Twyford and other local...student and senior discounts. FOLGER CONSORT "The Second Shepherds' Play," Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 2 and 8, Sundays at 2 and 7...
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Wakefield Master, Wakefield plays
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Wakefield Master, Wakefield plays (or Towneley plays), see mystery plays .
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Second Shepherds' Play
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
an English miracle play by the Wakefield Master (fl. 1425-50). The play portrays the adoration of Jesus by the shepherds. It is noteworthy for its introduction, a dramatically astute burlesque about a sheep stealer.
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Bentley, Richard
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...1662–1742). Scholar and polemicist. After attending Wakefield Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, Bentley was...which Bentley showed to be forgeries. In 1700, he was elected master of Trinity, Cambridge. His relations with the fellows were...
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Bentley, Richard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...1662–1742). Scholar and polemicist. After attending Wakefield Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, Bentley came...which Bentley showed to be forgeries. In 1700, he was elected master of Trinity, Cambridge, where he remained until his death. His...
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Washington, George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...States.He was born at his father's estate, Wakefield, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the...half brother Lawrence Washington, the master of Mount Vernon , whose marriage into...his forces at White Plains. While not a master tactician, he occasionally displayed flashes...
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