Date of Award
4-1930
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Thomas P. Whelan
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to trace the origin and development of the drama from the liturgy of the Mass to the time of its complete secularization. I shall endeavor to show the process by which the Church itself, through the introduction of dramatic elements into its liturgy came to make its appeal to mimetic instinct, out of which grew the great popular religious dramas of the miracle plays, with its offshoots in the moralities and dramatic pageants.
Recommended Citation
Peters, Sylvester G., "The Secularization of the Liturgical Play" (1930). Bachelors’ Theses. 1369.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1369
Included in
Other English Language and Literature Commons, Playwriting Commons, Theatre History Commons
Comments
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Liberal Arts School, Marquette University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.