Potsdam State Teachers College - Pioneer Yearbook (Potsdam, NY)

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hpixk. . Qgl. Copyright . 1929 BY RUTH E. ARTHUR Editor-in-Chief EARL CHISAMORE Buriners Manager R- DOUULAJS The Cycle Wagons ENGLISH Drama began in the church, with the services called Mysteries, dealing wholly with Bible stories and the life of Christ, but as they became more popular with the masses, a broader field of subjects was sought, and lives of saints were used for dramatic material in the Miracle Plays of a century later, with the priests and choir boys the authors and actors. These plays were Hrst given on Holy Days and Saints' Days at the church altar, or in the enclosure just outside its walls. The Miracle Plays, more comic and more elaborate,were separated from the church, taken up by the trade guilds, and presented in the 15th century in huge two-story covered wagons, called cycle wagons. Every company had its pageant,- a scaEold of two rooms, upon four wheels. In the lower room they apparelled themselves, and in the higher room they played, it being open at the top that all beholders might see and hear them. The performance began at the abbey gate, and when the first pageant was over, the wagon was wheeled to the high cross before the mayor, and so to every street, until all the pageants appointed for the day were played. Four of the great cycles are preserved for us, the York cycle of 48 scenes, Chester cycle of 15 scenes, Wakefield cycle of 32. scenes, and Coventry cycle of 42. scenes. fag i .N M, of ,xt-J-fs if - 1 fs f--1-feerrvf t ef, ' l..x.x,s...aa.4-v? --1- T' - N 'rN '5 : 'f 'f, N-T '-- 'J-9 4.z:., I g 2.