33/74 A miracle-play without a full display of the diabolic element in it would have stood a fair chance of being pelted from the stage.( 357) (357) See Wright, History of Caricature and the Grotesque; F.J. Examples of the miracle-plays may be found in Marriott's Collection of English Miracle-Plays, 1838; in Hone's Ancient Mysteries; in T.Sharpe's Dissertaion on the Pageants.. anciently performed at Coventry, Coventry, 1828; in the publications of the Shakespearean and other societies. See especially The Harrowing of Hell, a miracle-play, edited from the original now in the British Museum, by T.O.Halliwell, London, 1840. |