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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liturgical drama

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2014

The English stage had made use of songs, in fact, ever since the liturgical drama of the Middle Ages.

From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry

This later coalesced with the “Stella,” as did also the play of the shepherds, and, at a still later date, another liturgical drama which we must now consider—the “Prophetae.”

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

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 W. J. (William James) Henderson

Even after the birth of 9 the "Sacra Rappresentazione" in the fourteenth century the old-fashioned liturgical drama survived in Italy and was preserved in activity in other parts of Europe.

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

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