Периоды английской литературы. Карпова В.А. - 21 стр.

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3. The subject – matter of the Mystery Plays was the history of
    ___________from the Creation to the end of the world and the Last
    Judgement.
4. The Mystery cycles were probably ____________in the first place by
    clerks of the neighbourhoods where they were to be performed.
5. Mystery plays were performed by the members of one ____________
    (or more in collaboration) on a stage on wheels.
6. The ___________references in Morality Plays are very numerous.
7. Such morality comic figures as the Vice and the Devil were especially
    well-developed and influenced later ______________.
8. In a typical Morality Play the characters are moods, attitudes, virtues
    and vices, physical (and mental) conditions such as old age and youth
    ___________.
9. The ____________of the English drama was more complex than that
    of the classical Greek drama.
10. The limited – scope morality _____________with a single vice or
    moral problem or a situation applicable to a certain person.
11. Drama derives its _____________from the age in which it is written.
12. John Wycliffe believed that the Bible, not the church was the true
    ________.
13. The English Mystery Cycle is undoubtedly ____________with the
    dramatic rituals upon which it drew.
14. The Mystery Cycle is a ____________communal or national drama.
15. ___________in Arthur decreased in the 18 th century.
16. Spenser used an Arthurian background for his ___________epic.
17. The earliest ___________Morality Play is “The Castell of
    Persevearance”.
18. There is a fragment of an English interlude ___________from as early
    as the 13th century, “The Clerk and the Maiden”.
19. The morality style derives from the medieval ____________idiom.
20. The only truly _____________or English drama before the
    Shakespearean is the Mystery Cycle.
                    Comprehension Activities
I. Read the following statements. Which of these statements do you think
are correct?
1. Rituals have nothing to do with the Morality Plays.
2. The Mystery Plays and The Moralities became so secularized as to
   bring on the disapproval of the Church.
3. Arthurian legend had taken its place as one of the greatest themes of
   medieval romance.
4. The term “Interlude” suggests short pieces between other
   entertainments.
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