Medieval drama

Drama is a type of theater invented for the first time in Greece. It started again, after the conquest of Greece by the Romans, in Middle Ages and was called Medieval Drama. Church started to act, as a dialogue, Quem Quaeritis, an episode of the Bible, to catch attention of the public and to include them. The mass at the time was in Latin and most of the people didn’t know Latin so the Priest acted on Easter with others the episode to make the public understand better the meaning. Medieval drama evolved and the episodes started to be performed in the market place by the people. In the market place during the week of easter or in the week of Corpus Domini every day the people performed more than one episode to act all of the bible. These performance were called Miracles plays and they were organized by all the habitants of the town. These plays were performed on moving carriages with two levels, one on which the actors performed and the other to symbolize Hell, made by the carpenters. The Performers wore costumes created by tailors and the people who watched the plays usually gave some money. The carriages went in circle in the market place each one performing a different play.