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Crash Course Theater
Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
Season 1
Episode 10
Not long after drama reappeared in the unlikely home of European churches, the church decided again it didn't like theater. And so, the budding dramatic scene was kicked out into the harsh elements of the outdoors. Today we'll learn about mystery plays, cycle plays, pageant wagons, and how medieval European theater moved from being a religious phenomenon to a secular one.
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10:40
Spain was having kind of a moment in the 16th and 17th centuries.

12:54
In the 1600s, English theater had to go into hiding, from PURITANS. Enter: WOMEN.

11:50
Thanks, Shakespeare! Let's talk about Ben Jonson, revenge tragedies, and court masques.

10:46
Let's take a look at Shakespeare's comedies, romances, problem plays and heroines.

11:29
Shakespeare's tragedies had some jokes, and they changed the way tragedies were written.

10:52
How a young Shakespeare stormed into London's theater – and wrote some pretty good plays.

12:17
Let's take a look at London theater and the playwrights who set the stage for Shakespeare.

10:43
Painting, music, architecture, and plays with fart jokes were all thriving from 1300-1500.

12:20
Noh, and its counterpart Kyogen are some of the most revered theater forms in Japan.

11:01
Meet Hrotsvitha: a cool, 10th century nun/playwright who influenced a new era of theater.

11:59
As Christianity rose in the west, theater declined. But it returned – via Catholic Mass!

12:02
Thanks to Bharata Muni, we can tell you quite a bit about Ancient Sanskrit theater.