This book provides a detailed survey of the hundreds of
non-biblical serious plays which survive from the tenth to the
sixteenth centuries. The performers vary from civic groups and
literary societies to courts and convents: mainly amateurs, but
they left a legacy of stories that was drawn upon by the writers
for the professional theatre companies of Elizabethan England,
Golden Age Spain and the rich baroque theatre of France. Stories
from the Golden Legend and collections of Marian miracles appear
side by side with folk tales and traditional stories brought from
the Middle East by merchants, pilgrims and other travellers. Muir
considers what she terms the ???legacy??? of these tales: when
playwrights for the new public theatres such as Shakespeare and
Lope de Vega retain the situations and settings of the older
stories but transform them by the emphasis on psychology and the
gradual disappearance of the religious element.
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