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    Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest...
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    The York Mystery Plays, more properly the York Corpus Christi Plays, are a Middle English cycle of 48 mystery plays or pageants covering sacred history...
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  • The Wakefield or Towneley Mystery Plays are a series of thirty-two mystery plays based on the Bible most likely performed around the Feast of Corpus Christi...
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  • The Mystery Play is the title of a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Jon J. Muth, released as a hardcover by DC Comics Vertigo...
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    The Mystery Play of Elche or Elche Mystery Play (Valencian: Misteri d'Elx [misˈtɛɾi ˈðɛʎtʃ]; Spanish: Misterio de Elche [misˈteɾjo ˈð(e) ˈeltʃe]), is...
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    The Chester Mystery Plays is a cycle of mystery plays originating in the city of Chester, England and dating back to at least the early part of the 15th...
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  • Look up mystery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Mystery, a cat character in Emily the...
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    Problems playing this file? See media help. The Coventry Mystery Plays, or Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants, are a cycle of medieval mystery plays from Coventry...
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    dramas, the York Mystery Plays, the Chester Mystery Plays, the Wakefield Mystery Plays, and the N-Town Plays, as well as the morality play known as Everyman...
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    name derives from mystery used in its sense of miracle, but an occasionally quoted derivation is from misterium, meaning craft, a play performed by the...
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    The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone...
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  • The Barton Mystery is a 1916 play by the Anglo-American writer Walter C. Hackett. It was first performed at the Savoy Theatre in London, lasting for 165...
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    mummers' plays as they are known today is from the mid- to late 18th century. Mummers' plays should not be confused with the earlier mystery plays. Mumming...
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  • murder mystery play, similar to The Mousetrap, which has the right number of parts for its members. The cast is headed by Chris Bean, who plays Inspector...
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    the Synoptic Gospels unfold. The York Cycle of English mystery plays has a whole (ten-minute) play about this incident. The word discussed above is Rabony...
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    Playwright (redirect from Play writer)
    wrote The Moustrap, a murder mystery play which is the longest-running West End show, it has by far the longest run of any play in the world, with its 29...
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    performed in Coventry in England as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter...
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    The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The play opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when...
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  • by H.D. Mysteries (album), a 1975 jazz album by Keith Jarrett Mysteries (novel), an 1892 psychological novel The Mysteries, a 1977 English play cycle The...
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  • of Hit Mystery Play Deathtrap, Dies at 78". Playbill. Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-27. "No. 4 in Long Play Runs, 'Deathtrap'...
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    From the guild control they gained the name mystery play. The mystery play developed into a series of plays dealing with all the major events in the Christian...
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    Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within...
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    festivals which took place outside the church. Passion Plays were the focal point of the Mystery Plays that were performed by city guilds in many medieval...
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    A mystery dinner is a popular type of dinner theater in which the play is a murder mystery, and the diners are invited to solve the mystery as they eat...
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  • unknown. Following cryptic hints from a faceless mystery-man known only as "Mr. E" (a play on "mystery"), they find themselves caught up in the unsolved...
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  • closing moments. In 1995 Mystery Writers of America included the play in their list of The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. The play opened in the United...
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  • about an amateur ice hockey team from the fictional small town of Mystery that plays an exhibition game against the National Hockey League (NHL)'s New...
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    attended the 1988 mystery plays revival, which were the last such performances at the abbey. Prince Edward has also attended a mystery play. Furness Abbey...
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  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (also known as Scooby-Doo! Mystery, Inc. or simply Mystery Incorporated) is an American animated horror comedy television...
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  • The Mysteries is a cycle of three medieval English mystery plays first presented at London's National Theatre in 1977 which tell a story of the Bible from...
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