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| | Barter Books - A Caribbean Mystery |
 | | She also wrote short stories and mystery plays, including the long-running The Mousetrap. | | | A fine mystery in a fine condition first edition. | | | Over the next 50 years, she wrote over seventy books, some under the pseudonym 'Mary Westmacott'. |
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| | She is the author of 79 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and 6 novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. | | | Sittaford Mystery 2XCD (Agatha Christie) - Allen and Unwin | | | Description : John Moffatt and Stephen Tompkinson star in a BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of a classic thriller from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. |
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| | Shakespeare, William -> The Plays Chronology of Composition The chronology of Shakespeare's plays is uncertain, but a reasonable approximation of their order can be inferred from dates of publication, references in contemporary writings, allusions in the plays to contemporary events, thematic relationships, and metrical and stylistic comparisons. | | | miracle play miracle play or mystery play, form of medieval drama that came from dramatization of the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. | | | His early plays were published as Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (2 vol., 1898). |
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| | BBC 7 - Drama - Agatha Christie |
| | It was in the late 1920s and 1930s that Christie began her prolific writing pattern: four mystery novels, 14 Poirots; two Marples; two Superintendent Battle books; a book of stories featuring Harley Quin and another featuring Parken Pyne; and two original plays. | | | Hercule Poirot, one of her most famous characters, made his first appearance in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), her first detective novel. | | | She married Archibald Christie, an officer in the Royal Flying Corps in 1914 and during World War I she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquay where, it has been said, she picked up a knowledge of poisons which was to serve her well in her future writing career. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/drama/progpages/christie.shtml
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| | Universal/MCA DVD: Notting Hill (Collector's Edition) DVD Movie |
| | Hugh Grant plays William Thacker, the owner of a travel bookstore in the Notting Hill section of London. | | | It's a story about an actress (Anna Scott played by Julia Roberts) at the height of her career finding the ordinary man (William Thacker played by Hugh Grant) in Notting Hill (an actual place in the UK) and falling in love with him. | | | Use the search box at the top of the page to search for additional Notting Hill (Collector's Edition) DVD products related to Notting Hill (Collector's Edition). |
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| | ShoppingAisles.com - DVD: The Red House |
| | To my mind, Robinson tends to overplay his part at times, but Allene Roberts comes into her own and plays opposite his character extremely well. | | | I had never really heard of The Red House (1947) until recently, but this is one heck of a good film. | | | Pete becomes more unsettled as the movie progresses, as dark memories begin to bubble to the surface of his mind, and the viewer is eventually forced to question his motives. |
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| | SloMo Rabbit Kick - Family Tree |
| | Brian Willett also plays in the Dutch Elms, and is, coincidentally enough, the SloMo lead guitarist. | | | Brian, Joe and I played in a band way back in 1995 called the Shore Road Mystery, just prior to my moving up to Bellingham. | | | At one point the Hydra did a split 7-inch record with Death Cab, and on DCFC's first album they covered a song of mine called 1000 Shits. |
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| | Mystery play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mystery plays or miracle plays are one of the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. | | | Mystery plays should not be confused with Miracle plays, which specifically re-enacted episodes from the lives of the saints. | | | The Mystery Plays were revived in York in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain. |
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| | Mystery play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mystery plays or miracle plays are one of the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. | | | Mystery plays should not be confused with Miracle plays, which specifically re-enacted episodes from the lives of the saints. | | | The Mystery Plays were revived in York in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain. |
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| | The Second Shepherds' Play Study Questions |
| | Since Mystery Plays were performed in the streets by ordinary citizens (the Guilds), not professional actors or priests, they doubly engaged their audience: those who performed in them must have felt a part of the stories they were enacting, while the audience witnessed biblical narratives "coming to life" with a very familiar and human face. | | | While Mystery Plays were undoubtedly fun to watch, the underlying purpose was serious: to engage the interest and understanding of the audience in order to help them be better Christians. | | | Know the theatrical meaning of the term "mystery" or "mystery play," what a typical cycle of mysteries consisted of, what a guild was (and its relevance to medieval theater), and the dual function of the mystery plays (see NA 379 and below). |
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| | Mystery Plays Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Mystery plays should not be confused with Miracle plays, which specifically re-enacted episodes from the lives of the saints. | | | The Mystery Plays were revived in York in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain. | | | A simulator of the progress of the pageants in the York Mystery plays |
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http://www.alienartifacts.com/encyclopedia/Mystery_plays
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| | Stonecastle and Murder Mystery Play Home |
| | Our murder mystery plays are designed to be performed in a party environment where there are 12 or more adults. | | | The murder mystery plays come in a complete kit. | | | StoneCastle writes and sells their own murder mystery plays... |
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| | Medieval page |
| | The mystery plays were those with Gospel events, while the miracle plays were those that dealt with the legends of the saints. | | | The booth stage, which was a high thrust platform and a curtained area for the actors use, was used in the mystery and miracle plays. | | | Miracle plays were formed when the simple scenes from the bible that had become part of public worship, could no longer be performed by priests in the 13th century. |
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| | Encyclopedia article on Mystery play [EncycloZine] |
| | Mystery plays are one of the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. | | | The mystery play developed into a series of plays dealing with all the major events in the Christian calendar, from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. | | | By the end of the 15th century, the tradition of acting these plays in cycles on festival days (such as the Feast of Corpus Christi) was established across Europe, each play was performed on decorated carts called pageants, that moved about the city to allow different crowds to watch each play. |
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| | Performing Arts |
| | Chester Mystery Plays remain a treasured part of our 2000-year-old city's cultural heritage and a highlight of the arts events calendar attracting people from all over the world. | | | The Mystery Plays are one of the earliest forms of street theatre and were revived in 1951 for the Festival of Britain. | | | For news on last and next plays, visit Chester Mystery Plays |
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| | Mystery and miracle plays in English drama |
| | By the sixteenth century, several English towns had established the performance on Corpus Christi of long cycles of mystery plays, covering sacred history from Creation to Judgment Day. | | | Occasionally mystery and miracle plays were also performed as separate dramas by professional troupes of itinerant actors, but the staging of these plays could not compete with the lavish costumes and elaborate effects produced by the guilds in the mystery cycles. | | | LITURGICAL DRAMA—plays performed in Latin by the clergy and the choir that sang the service, as part of the liturgy of the Church during the medieval period. |
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| | Blockley Millennium Mystery Play 2004 |
| | The original 'Blockley Millennium Mystery Play’ was a community production of the New Testament plays staged by a cast and crew of local Blockley residents to mark the turn of the Millennium. | | | On Saturday 24th April the box office for the Blockley Millenium Mystery Plays 2004 will officially open and the scramble for tickets will begin. | | | The choir agreed to travel from London to perform in the festival after working on Eastenders with the director of the Mystery Plays, Chris Jury, who also directed Little Mo and Billy’s Eastenders wedding on Christmas day 2002 in which the Choir were heavily featured. |
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| | Baragona's Medieval Drama Home Page |
| | What began as "a multimedia computer project on the fifteenth-century York Mystery Plays, arguably the most famous of the cycles, [has grown] into a research project exploring all aspects of the plays and their various social, intellectual, religious, and theatrical contexts. | | | This site from the National Centre for Early Music, in York, England, presents research on the history of the York Mystery Plays since their revival in 1951. | | | was the first outdoor processional presentation of the entire cycle of 47 surviving plays since the final performance in York in 1569. |
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| | Mystery (or Miracle) Plays (ca. 1311-1500) : Library of Congress Citations |
| | Title: Medieval mystery plays: Abraham and Isaac, Noah's flood, The second shepherd's play; morality plays: The castle of perseverance, Everyman; and interludes: Johan, the husband, the four PP. | | | Non-cycle mystery plays, together with the Croxton play of the sacrament and the pride of life. | | | Title: Ancient mysteries described, especially the English miracle plays, founded on Apocryphal New Testament story extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum; including notices of ecclesiastical shows... |
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| | Chester Mystery Plays |
| | One of Chester's greatest treasures is its cycle of mystery plays ("mystery" simply means "trade guilds" - plays for the working people); indeed, it is the only complete English language cycle in existence. | | | 1561 details about the preparations for the Chester Mystery Plays certainly show that the original participants did not take an over-solemn approach to their great theatrical festival! | | | In 1992 the medieval tradition of separate companies presenting the different plays will be revived. |
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| | VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Bal Cupidon : Main |
| | In Le Bal Cupidon, an amusing comedy-mystery in the Thin Man tradition, Pierre Blanchar plays Dominique-Phillippe, a suave private detective, and Simone Renant plays Isabelle, the best friend of a murder suspect. | | | In Le Bal Cupidon, an amusing comedy-mystery in the Thin Man tradition, Pierre Blanchar plays Dominique-Phillippe, a suave private detective, and Simone Renant plays Isab... | | | In Le Bal Cupidon, an amusing comedy-mystery in the Thin Man tradition, Pierre Blanchar pl... |
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| | 2000 Christmas Programme |
| | One origin for the Mummers' play is thought to be the Mediaeval mystery play, but it is clear that, in the majority of plays now surviving, the "moral" and religious tone of the mystery play has somewhat dissipated. | | | Mummers' plays were quite common throughout Great Britain and Ireland before 1914, and a few are still being regularly being performed today, although many survive in print as a result of the efforts of a number of folklorists in the early part of this century. | | | Mummers' plays are a part of Britain's cultural heritage, and are closely linked with Morris Dancing and, in parts of the country, Long Sword dancing. |
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| | Growing quite naturally out of the mystery plays were the morality plays that first began to appear around 1375. | | | The writers of the moralities devised plays in which characters were no longer scriptural personages like the mysteries, sheer abstractions, and the action took in one way or another the form of a struggle of Good and Evil for the possession of Man, who is himself, under one name or another, the central figure. | | | Perhaps the most distinctive mark of the morality plays was their use of the character Vice, often a devil or Satan himself, but always a evil force. |
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| | It is not surprising that another kind of play developed side by side with the mystery plays, and that these dramatized the most instructive part of the church service, the homily or sermon. | | | The power of drama both to entertain and to educate must have been immediately evident from the popularity of the mystery plays. | | | Like most morality plays, it takes a central figure who represents all of us, and confronts him (he is always a male) with a situation which involves a moral decision. |
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| | English literature - encyclopedia article about English literature. |
| | The Italian Renaissance had rediscovered the ancient Greek and Roman theater, which was then beginning to evolve apart from the old mystery and miracle plays of the middle ages. | | | Mystery plays were enacted in cities and towns to celebrate major holidays, and the less formal mummers plays also conveyed Christian themes. | | | Drama in the early part of the period featured the last plays of John Vanbrugh and William Congreve, both of whom carried on the Restoration comedy with some alterations. |
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| | Partners & Crime, Mystery Booksellers - Mystery Radio Plays and Special Mystery Author Readings and Signings, New York City |
| | Just go through the secret entrance hidden in the bookcases and find yourself in a 1940s radio studio, where the actors, sound effects artist and organist recreate your favorite mystery radio plays. The password is FUN. | | | Partners and Crime, Mystery Booksellers - Mystery Radio Plays and Special Mystery Author Readings and Signings, New York City | | | Old-time mystery radio returns to Partners and Crime for the 2005 season with two brand-new episodes each month. |
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| | ReligionLink - 'Passion' plays out locally |
| | Passion plays focusing on the Easter story were essentially one of type of mystery or miracle play. | | | Medieval "mystery" and "miracle" plays became enormous productions by the Renaissance era, using music and hundreds of actors and sometimes lasting for weeks. | | | Today's Easter dramas are descended from the Passion plays that originated in the Middle Ages, around the 11th century, according to an article in the Catholic Encyclopedia. |
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| | York plays -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | a cycle of 32 scriptural plays, or “mystery plays,” of the early 15th century, which were performed during the European Middle Ages at Wakefield, a town in the north of England, as part of the summertime religious festival of Corpus Christi. | | | a cycle of 48 plays, dating from the 14th century, of unknown authorship, which were performed during the Middle Ages by craft guilds in the city of York, in the north of England, on the summer feast day of Corpus Christi. | | | Some of the York plays are almost identical with corresponding plays in the Wakefield cycle, and it has been suggested that there was an original (now lost) from… |
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