Theatre History Part 5: Medieval Theatre (FULL LESSON)

This is an engaging and immersive Google Slides presentation filled with text, videos, pictures, and review questions. This full lesson was completely built by a theatre professor and theatre industry professional. This presentation is also programmed with text animation and video start/stop times. All the work is done for you! This presentation is easily understandable and is great for theatre and non-theatre students alike (perfect for humanities/arts classes).

Topics in this presentation include:

• Exploration of how theatre represented culture and religion during the Medieval Era.
• Discussion of the historical reasonings behind the start and growth of the Medieval Era.
• Exploration of specific Medieval theatre genre such as Liturgical Drama, Mystery Plays, Miracle Plays, and Morality Plays.
• Analysis of specific significant Medieval theatre works such as Quem Quaeritis, Dulcitius, Order of the Virtues, and Everyman.
• Discussions of significant Medieval playwrights including the notable female writers Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim and Hildegard of Bingen.
• Colorful pictures
• Review questions & answers

This Google Slides presentation is fully editable/customizable and can be tailored towards younger students (Middle and High School) or older students (University/College and Adult).

Although each Theatre History session focuses on a specific region of the world and can be individually used, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that they be presented together and in the suggested order. The reasoning for this is the sessions connect to each other and build on one another (i.e. using terms learned in previous sessions and recalling previously mentioned concepts to compare/contrast).