Sentence examples for folk plays from inspiring English sources

Eleven volumes of folk plays appeared under his editorship.

So why not start with plays that came before Shakespeare, plays that follow on from Shakespeare, folk plays?

Christian churches were built on the sites of pagan temples, and folk plays were even organized as part of the village church activities.

They boasted a huge repertory of plays and operettas both classical and folkloric, but the folk plays were the most popular.

The theatres used for the performances of Indian folk plays normally have an open stage, devoid of scenery, that is surrounded on three sides by the audience.

Aidan Gillen (a star of the British television series "Queer as Folk") plays a major introvert living with his invalid mother (Susan Tyrell).

They are often performed as part of a folk play.

And presenting The Tempest as a folk play – staged with sophisticated minimalism – is certainly winning.

A further, though minor, influence on the development of theatre was the folk play.

The plays are closely related to the English mummers plays and parallel the Greek folk play in Thrace.

Hocktide play, a folk play formerly given at Coventry, Eng., on Hock Tuesday (the second Tuesday after Easter).