Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play: Crash Course Theater #10

[@amberallen7809]

Best description of mystery plays by someone in my medieval literature class: Biblical fanfic.

[@martakheyfets2235]

Amber Allen that’s awesome

[@KelciaMarie1]

Theater is literally my profession, and I find myself coming back to these crash course theater videos at least once or twice a year. They're that good

[@alicedrysdale2066]

Can confirm being from Northern England, weather complaints in mystery pays are indeed relatable.

[@DeusViator]

Being from Wakefield, I can understand the need to write plays complaining about the weather.

[@jeffbrownstain]

Damnit Mike I don't know who does the writing for you or if you adlib but you're freaking hilarious and an amazing host. Your smallest jokes hit so on point. I want you as the host of everything I watch.

[@Micahlee_19]

Somewhere along the way Mike became my favorite CrashCourse host and I just realized it - these new series have been some of my favorites!

[@jeff8835]

These videos are so refreshing, handling touchy subject matter with humor is an art we so need these days!!

[@lyadmilo]

I performed a cycle drama outside of York Minster (Cornish cycle, the resurrection). Just gonna use this to shout out to Lords of Misrule. 3 plays a year, all amazing. Go U of York Centre for Medieval Studies!

[@maloganson6481]

You save my life for my IB theater HL class. I also watched your video on Artaud and used it as the base of my research for two of my projects! You rock!

[@starlinguk]

I watched one of the cycles (York, I think) in Durham cathedral and when they did the play where Christ visits hell, a big flock of bats took off. It was awesome.

[@DisgaeaFan707]

Gotta love a Crash Course that literally starts off with a Dead Baby joke :D

[@electrafroot344]

I would love a Crash Course Metaphysics!!

[@CBDroege]

Now I want to know more about 13th century English tennis.

[@helloInternets]

Grant Morrison has an existential comic called "The Mystery Play" with gorgeous art. Everyone should go get it from their library or buy it.

[@JSnyder49428]

Wait a minute. Has Crash Course always been a PBS Studio production? I don't remember seeing that PBS intro back in the day when it was just Hank and John. UPDATE: Nevermind, I actually bothered to google it. Didn't realize I had been watching that long already though.

[@TheRachaelLefler]

"And there's just a little cannibalism. You know, for fun."

[@tristanroberts8016]

So were pageant wagons the precursor to parade floats?

[@someordinaryyoutuber5886]

Make Crash Corse Linguistics, That Would Be Awesome!

[@hq4287]

It would!

[@amandachaney2031]

Since this is PBS, are there any worksheets or quizzes/tests that are available to give my students after viewing these videos?

[@DuluthTW]

Hilarious. Theater Wagons? This was the first I heard of them. Thanks for sharing!

[@OxfyMags]

The Catholics really do know how to have fun. They do rowdy plays and drink themselves pissed. Even monks have fun and get smashed for Christmas and Easter. Everyone should follow their suits.

[@KindessisEternal]

Well, at least Les Mis is musical and.....not boring. LOL Hang on, they had tennis balls in the 15th century?

[@ramshackle1754]

KindessisEternal Yeah, but they were very different from modern tennis balls. They depicted that anachronism rather... anachronistically.

[@Suite_annamite]

Yeah, they had precursors to tennis and squash in the late 1400s, which really became a thing during the Renaissance-era courts of England, France, and Italy.

[@MusicalRaichu]

Coming from a Greek background, I knew that Sophocles wrote plays millenia ago, and Aliki Vouyouklaki performed in movies at the local cinema, so I presumed there was a continuous run in between ...

[@AlthenaLuna]

All this talk of Hellmouths just made me think of Sunnydale.

[@outsidergirl]

Highly recommend Branden Jacobs-Jenkins take on Everyman, aptly titled Everybody. It was also just named a Pulitzer finalist, so don't just take my word for it.

[@bdwhardy9680]

And Tony Harrison's The Mysteries

[@luke9033]

Hey, what happened to episode number 9 please? I'm really enjoying these and I don't want to miss one if I can avoid it :) .

[@kated442]

The Shepherd play sounds like it could be part of Life of Brian

[@tristanroberts8016]

Sounded a lot more like a Monty Python sketch (absurdist humor) than anything biblical.

[@bernardoschmitt7761]

i can't find reference to the play of the greenwood anywhere, it seems really interesting. Does anyone knows where i can read it?

[@NikoLavikainen]

Woot! York minster!

[@donnysandley4649]

Great job as usual 👍🤔😊🤗

[@katemarie5968]

I’m watching this from the playlist and I noticed that the numbers in this series skipped from 8 to 10. Is there an episode 9? If not, was it just a matter of misnumbering things or was episode 9 deleted?

[@loganvararok8710]

sooooo... the second shepherds' play is basically the worlds first known disappointing prequel spinoff?

[@tuskinekinase]

"In Glass and Stone" is definitely a NDDP ref

[@rkpetry]

*_...OFFSIDEBAR NOTE: did we miss a paragraph about, Why, the church got into theatre, with St. John's Revelation, which scholars believe was, intended as, a stage production..._*

[@peka2478]

Mystery might be a term for any craft, but it also comes from the Greek Mysterion, which would be translated into Latin Bibles as Sacrament, so mystery plays can also be read as sacral plays, no?

[@ianscott3289]

You guys should do crash course zoology

[@abi243]

Pope innocent? What a fun name

[@tuskinekinase]

Les Miz was long? Wait til you see the whole Ring Cycle opera...

[@mikekuppen6256]

JEDERMAAAAAAANN!!!

[@Truman5555]

Kevin Cosner! Robin Hood is a talking fox!!!!!

[@hubertgreen]

Intresting videos. Do you know any actors from this ages that was involved in the christian theater? Did any one get "famous" ?

[@Channelcles]

Where did you buy that shirt!?

[@DaglasVegas]

the Protestants really hated everything fun.

[@anttibjorklund1869]

Only some did. Elizabeth I loved plays.

[@rezadteimouri]

Some Protestants thought condoms were ok unlike Catholics... it’s all relative

[@DaglasVegas]

raza, there were no condoms in the 16th century. Catholesizim is all about enabling the sinners. that's why they go to confession so they can carry on with their infidelities. all the carnivals and all the sex and boozing is in the Catholic countries, and even the religious services and churches themselvs are more colorful. in comparison, all the gloomy protestants nations with their puritan repression and eversion of art and celebration, are so boring. For the Protestants, the Anglicans were too popish because they still kept some colorful catholic traditions that made the religion a little less boring.

[@rezadteimouri]

Gad Yariv I was referencing Monty Python: The Meaning of Life. Even so, the catholic family is depicted as having an large amount of children whilst the protestant family is just an old couple with no children and likely never had sex...

[@rezadteimouri]

Gad Yariv i guess your point still stands! Even then, my mom had catholic parents who were very strict and didn’t let her do certain things for fear that it might corrupt them, such as visiting friends or watching TV. I guess it was different at the time, but what i meant to say with that comment was that, for certain things, the reverse can be true.

[@almightytallestred]

Congratulations! You have successfully beaten a thief half to death. You are now eligible to see the new-born Messiah.

[@marilynhill2248]

Watched CSmith

[@Alverant]

Hold on, it's the "Gospel ACCORDING to Luke" That middle part is important because Luke wasn't there. He just wrote down a bunch of stuff he heard third-hand that supposedly happened and passed it off as real. Same with the other gospels.

[@ethanmcbee9556]

Glad you were there to confirm all your claims. lol

[@brandonburrell8517]

@@ethanmcbee9556 You tell him.

[@CyberedCake]

What about Crash Course Kids?

[@dmitryaesthetic]

Hello from Russia! I wanna translate your Economics videos for Russian people, can I do it and use your videos in Russian on my KZbin channel? Will it Ok? Because of your Economics videos are really useful but Russians can't understand it in English. You will get a new audience and I think it's great. So appreciate, thank you!

[@bwminich]

Hellmouth? I didn’t know the medieval Christians were into Buffy.

[@t.vinters3128]

When you think about it, Buffy is ridiculously full of Christian symbolism. So there's that. [:

[@yawenyang220]

where‘s ep9？’

[@ishalhuds4902]

Crash course electro please

[@bethanyeschen-pipes3667]

I think The Second Shepherd's Play was parody/satire.

[@joshuakaufman6787]

Passion Plays: The bible, but with an antisemitic Deadpool. Or is it everyone else that is antisemitic?

[@rchuso]

Theater is bigger than god!

[@300risesagain5]

Why did you just delete the video on INDIAN SCIENCE HISTORY? Simply why?

[@emilyconcannon]

💚💙❤️💜

[@KR0NIC]

First comment not about order

[@FilledCircle]

Wait a minute...

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Oh you you Christian make me laugh 😅

[@joshuakaufman6787]

1854th!

[@denistertichnik8141]

А я Русский

[@starscreen.202]

why can’t Diplomats get arrested

[@rebeccafrankenstein3575]

Third

[@itsp3599]

First

[@nakulsindhwani1841]

THE EARTH IS FLAT

[@starlinguk]

AND YOU'RE DUMB. (If it's written in capitals its true, right?)

[@yuno3807]

ur mom gay

[@Suite_annamite]

*What kind of "Indian" are you?!* It's common sense of Indic and Hindu thought that the world "comes around". *You must be a Christian or Muslim convert, a shame to your Hindu ancestors.*

[@JonBastian]

Sigh. If only they'd banned religion instead.