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mystery play

NOUN
  1. a medieval play representing episodes from the life of Christ

How To Use mystery play In A Sentence

  • Obviously the Mystery Plays were originally intended to be performed on waggons, and it is good to keep this tradition alive.
  • The man who helped create York's world-famous Jorvik Viking Centre has offered to help save the Mystery Plays.
  • The main building was also used for the enactment of mystery plays.
  • So while the city ponders how to restage the Mystery Plays, why don't we make that extra effort and revive the whole festival?
  • Traditional Basque plays known as pastorales, which possibly related to medieval mystery plays, are still performed at festivals.
  • To set the scene, Dr. Parnassus is an ancient and mysterious traveling showman whose horse-drawn theatre presents something like a Medieval Mystery Play by way of the Commedia dell'arte.
  • The principal issue for the mystery plays was the representation of the divine, which conventionally was signified by a burnished gold mask in contradistinction to the blackening of the devil.
  • The main building was also used for the enactment of mystery plays.
  • It was a heady mixture, irresistible to those who wished to turn prehistory into a form of mystery play. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fo had developed the play - a series of episodes in the manner of Mystery Plays - over 15 to 20 years when researching the life of jongleurs, itinerant street entertainers.
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