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2. J.B. (play) - Wikipedia

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   J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.

3. Stage works of Paul Goodman - Wikipedia

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   Goodman's plays include Stop-Light, a collection of verse drama adaptations of the Japanese Noh art form; Childish Jokes: Crying Backstage, a short farce; Faustina, telling the story of Faustina the Younger with Reichian themes; The Young Disciple, a free interpretation of the Gospel of Mark; The Cave at Machpelah, a verse drama based on ...

4. Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia

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   Literature portal. v. t. e. Verse drama is any drama written significantly in verse (that is: with line endings) to be performed by an actor before an audience. Although verse drama does not need to be primarily in verse to be considered verse drama, significant portions of the play should be in verse to qualify. [1]

5. Liturgical drama - Wikipedia

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   Liturgical drama refers to medieval forms of dramatic performance that use stories from the Bible or Christian hagiography . The term was widely disseminated by well-known theater historians like Heinrich Alt ( Theater und Kirche, 1846), [1] E.K. Chambers ( The Mediaeval Stage, 1903) and Karl Young. Young's two-volume monumental work [2] about ...

6. A.D. The Bible Continues - Wikipedia

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   A.D. The Bible Continues. A.D. The Bible Continues (also known as A.D. Kingdom and Empire) is an American biblical drama television miniseries, based on the Bible, and a sequel to the 2013 miniseries, The Bible, and follows up from the film Son of God which was a more in depth look on Jesus's story.

7. Harrowing of Hell (drama) - Wikipedia

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   The Harrowing of Hell is an eighth-century Latin work in fifty-five lines found in the Anglo-Saxon Book of Cerne (folios 98v–99v). It is probably a Northumbrian work, written in prose and verse, where the former serves either as a set of stage directions for a dramatic portrayal or as a series of narrations for explaining the poetry.

8. The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac - Wikipedia

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   ) deal with the story of Abraham and Isaac. However, the Brome Abraham seems to be most closely related to the barbers' play of Abraham in the Chester Mystery Plays. A comparison of the texts reveals around 200 lines of striking similarity, in particular during the debates between Abraham and Isaac that are at the hearts of the plays. A. M.

9. Satyr play - Wikipedia

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   Satyr play. A drinking cup, c. 490–480 B.C., depicting a maenad and a satyr. The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and tragedy. It preserves theatrical elements of dialogue, actors speaking verse, a chorus that dances and sings, masks and costumes. Its relationship to tragedy is strong; satyr plays were ...