Introduce the Medieval Theatre by Bulala

Introduce:
The “Middle Ages” is the label historians have given to those years of European history between the fall of Rome (476 A.D) and the coming of the Renaissance; it is a curiously colorless designation for one of the most diversely creative periods in the annals of Western civilization. After the fall of Rome the 600’s A.D., came a period known to us as the "dark ages." Much political turmoil is no reliable political structure, and the church was the only stable “government”, the church exerted increasing influence. In the 4th Century, the Bishop of Rome, claiming to be the successor to St. Peter, established supremacy in church matters and in secular concerns.

In the middle Ages, type of play acted within or near the church and relating stories from the Bible and of the saints. Although they had their roots in the Christian liturgy, such plays were not performed as essential parts of a standard church service. The language of the liturgical drama was Latin, and the dialogue was frequently chanted to simple monophonic melodies. Music was also used in the form of incidental dance and processional tunes
Before 1200, most were still being done inside the church as part of the liturgy. Most were probably still in Latin, the language of the Church.
And the medieval theatre was born in the liturgy of the Christian Church of the early tenth century, when a series of liturgical elaborations, known as tropes (from the Latin tropus, meaning” added melody”), expanded the offices of the Mass.
The most significant of these tropes, the Quem Queritis, appeared in the Easter Mass.