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Miracle play   /mˈɪrəkəl pleɪ/   Listen
noun
Miracle  n.  
1.
A wonder or wonderful thing. "That miracle and queen of genus."
2.
Specifically: An event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed. "They considered not the miracle of the loaves."
3.
A miracle play.
4.
A story or legend abounding in miracles. (Obs.) "When said was all this miracle."
Miracle monger, an impostor who pretends to work miracles.
Miracle play, one of the old dramatic entertainments founded on legends of saints and martyrs or (see 2d Mystery, 2) on events related in the Bible.





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"Miracle play" Quotes from Famous Books



... exquisite artistry of the school of Cellini might have been but the highest grade of the craft of a guild. The Shakespearean drama might have been acted by workmen on wooden stages set up in the street like Punch and Judy, the finer fulfilment of the miracle play as it was acted by a guild. The players need not have been "the king's servants," but their own masters. The great Renascence might have been liberal with its liberal education. If this be a fancy, it is at least one that cannot be disproved; the mediaeval revolution ...
— A Short History of England • G. K. Chesterton
... century has a number of farced Kyries and Glorias, also a collection of Sequences. A Dublin Processionale of the fourteenth century contains the most elaborate form of the Officium Sepulchri, with musical notation on a four-line stave—the foundation of the Miracle Play of the Resurrection. Another Dublin Troper dates from 1360 and was used in St. Patrick's Cathedral. It contains the hymn, "Angelus ad Virginem", alluded to by Chaucer. The Christ Church Psaltery, about 1370, has musical notation and is exquisitely illuminated. Lionel Power, an Anglo-Irishman, ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox


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