IVIUS
DREWENZ DRUSUS, NERO CLAUDIUS
DREXEL, ANTHONY JOSEPH DRUSUS CAESAR
DREYFUS, ALFRED DRYADES
DRIBURG DRYANDER, JONAS
DRIFFIELD DRYBURGH ABBEY
DRIFT DRYDEN, JOHN
DRILL DRYOPITHECUS
DRINKING VESSELS DRY ROT
DRIPSTONE DUALISM
DRISLER, HENRY DUALLA
DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES DU BARRY, MARIE JEANNE BECU
DRIVING DU BARTAS, GUILLAUME DE SALUSTE
DROGHEDA DUBAWNT
DROIT DUBBO
DROITWICH DU BELLAY, GUILLAUME
DROME DU BELLAY, JEAN
DROMEDARY DU BELLAY, JOACHIM
DROMORE DUBLIN (county of Ireland)
DROMOS DUBLIN (city of Ireland)
DRONE

DRAMA. (Continued from Volume 8 Slice 6.)

10. MEDIEVAL DRAMA

Ecclesiastical and monastic literary drama.

Hrosvitha.

While the scattered and persecuted strollers thus kept alive something
of the popularity, if not of the loftier traditions, of their art,
neither, on the other hand, was there an utter absence of written
compositions to bridge the gap between ancient and modern dramatic
literature. In the midst of the condemnation with which the Christian
Church visited the stage, its professors and votaries, we find
individual ecclesiastics resorting in their writings to both the tragic
and the comic form of the ancient drama. These isolated productions,
which include the [Greek: Christos paschon] (_Passion of Christ_)
formerly attributed to St Gregory Nazianzen, and the _Querolus_, long
fathered upon Plautus himself, were doubtless mostly written for
educational purposes--whether Euripides and Lycophron, or Menander,
Plautus and Terence, served as the outward models. The same was probably
the design of the famous "comedies" of Hrosvitha, the Benedictine nun of
Gandersheim, in Eastphalian Saxony, which associate themselves in the
history of Christian literature with the spiritual revival of the 10th
century in the days of Otto the Great. While avowedly imitated in form
from the comedies of Terence, these religious exercises derive their
themes--martyrdoms,[1] and miraculous or otherwise startling
conversions[2]--from the legends of Christian saints. Thus, from perhaps
the 9th to the 12th centuries, Germany and France, a