liturgical drama

American  

noun

1. medieval drama, based on incidents in the Bible and performed in churches on holy days, usually in Latin and often chanted.

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Example Sentences

Still, in its overall musical character, “Curlew River” is like a modern-day medieval liturgical drama.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2014

It is also quite unintelligible that any Churchman who considers seriously the meaning of the Eucharist should be content to depart before the liturgical drama has reached its climax.

From Religious Reality by Rawlinson, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John)

Musically it was radically different in character from the opera, as it was from the liturgical drama.

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)

Yet we have already seen that such Mysteries were not entirely unknown in Italy, and that the liturgical drama, performed by ecclesiastics, had been from early times a part of Church ceremonial on holy days.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

Coussemaker finds that this lyric drama had in its inception two chief varieties, namely, the secular drama, and the religious or liturgical drama.

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)