Two Playwrights

Grant wants us to get some culture, so he shines a light on the roots of theater in the West. Hrotsvitha was inspired to use the language of a playwright who lived a millennium before her to impart moral lessons to those who followed her. Hildegard of Bingen steered liturgical drama toward a form much more recognizable as theater, and invented a genre that would become dominant hundreds of years later.

Links

• Gandersheim Abbey
• The Plays of Roswitha (Translated by Christopher St John)
• International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies
• Digitized images of Scivias, Hildegard's first volume on her visions
• Ordo Virtutm

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