I found it interesting that the first play to human knowledge is an African theater play and Ancient Egyptian quasi-theatrical events. The earliest record dated back to 2000 BC with the 'passion Plays” of Ancient Egypt. Some of the earliest plays had spirituality and religion mixed in with them through festivals that they would do a play concerning a life of Osiris mysteries. The festival was divided into three parts; the defense of Osiris by his son, the fight and demise of Osiris, the defeat of Osiris enemies. The Egyptian didn't have traditional build theater for the plays. I am going to talk to you about the Greek plays and the church plays.
The Ancient Greek and Roman plays was very different from the church's moral plays. …show more content…
It was usually left to church high members and priest. The writing was in Latin and presented in Latin. This made it even harder for the people hearing it to understand. The church didn't think that theater was appropriate at one time because of the dramatics. The church thought it would take away from the morality that the church was trying to present to society. It would take away from the seriousness of sin or the word of God. How can you know the word of God if you cannot read or understand what is being said. This is where the Liturgy or moral plays would fit the order of teaching the word of God through action and drama. The moral plays of this period would help to bring people closer to the Christian religion. Before a lot of people illiterate or not couldn't understand what is being said. Now they could relate because they can self their self in the religion. I think the church feared the theater because the pass of ancient Greek and Roman plays.
The church decide to start showing the love of the Gods through play. They would present God to the Christians and present his words through moral plays they would call liturgy dramas. They say imitation is the highest form of flatter and this is what liturgy plays set out to do. Liturgy drama are meant to bring a live the scripture. The liturgy drama would usually have a narrator to describe the scenes. This might have been taken from Sophocles.
The Ancient Greek and Roman plays was very different from the church's moral plays. …show more content…
It was usually left to church high members and priest. The writing was in Latin and presented in Latin. This made it even harder for the people hearing it to understand. The church didn't think that theater was appropriate at one time because of the dramatics. The church thought it would take away from the morality that the church was trying to present to society. It would take away from the seriousness of sin or the word of God. How can you know the word of God if you cannot read or understand what is being said. This is where the Liturgy or moral plays would fit the order of teaching the word of God through action and drama. The moral plays of this period would help to bring people closer to the Christian religion. Before a lot of people illiterate or not couldn't understand what is being said. Now they could relate because they can self their self in the religion. I think the church feared the theater because the pass of ancient Greek and Roman plays.
The church decide to start showing the love of the Gods through play. They would present God to the Christians and present his words through moral plays they would call liturgy dramas. They say imitation is the highest form of flatter and this is what liturgy plays set out to do. Liturgy drama are meant to bring a live the scripture. The liturgy drama would usually have a narrator to describe the scenes. This might have been taken from Sophocles.