Die Darstellung von Jesus Christus im Passionsgeschehen der englischen Fronleichnamszyklen und der spätmittelalterlichen deutschen Passionsspiele

Theater and the Sacred in the Middle Ages

“…The first artist to introduce in drama the Trial in Heaven in the function of a frame (introductory and final part) was the author of Passion from Arras (Eustache Mercadé?, died in 1440). 981 The predominance of eschatology over the holy chronology is the starting point for the genologic idea of Joerg Fichte (1993). In his opinion, the British and German Corpus Christi cycles replace the liturgical with the historical framework that constructed the Passion mystery plays.…”