Spirited theater.A new theater history, Dramatis Personae dram·a·tis per·so·nae pl.n. 1. The characters in a play or story. 2. A list of the characters in a play or story. [Latin dr by Philip Freund (Owen), documents some of the complicated stage sets and special effects created for medieval religious dramas. The stage directions for a 15th-century French resurrection play have the Holy Spirit descend on the apostles as "tongues of flame lit 'artificially,' with the help of brandy above their heads." On the elaborate set of the Valenciennes (France) Passion play (depicted here), hell came alive in a fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. tower "surrounded by flames and crowded with wildly gesticulating ges·tic·u·late v. ges·tic·u·lat·ed, ges·tic·u·lat·ing, ges·tic·u·lates v.intr. To make gestures especially while speaking, as for emphasis. v.tr. To say or express by gestures. devils ... and supplemented by a well into which Satan is hurled after Christ . has opened the gates of hell (Script.) See Gate, n. os>, 4. See also: Hell ." Meanwhile, God the Father floated down on a cloud (a decorated platform) to retrieve his Son and return him to heaven. (The Tablet, April 15) |
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