Poetry and Religion as Drama

action actors Aeschylus Ages appears audience Becket becomes calls Cathedral century characters chorus Christ Christian Church clear comes complete death device divine Dr Faustus dramatist effect element Eliot Elizabethan emotion episode evil experience explains expression faith Faustus feeling followed force gives Greek Greek tragedy human idea important interest Jesus Joan kind knights language less lies live martyr martyrdom means medieval Middle Milton mind Morality move movement Murder mystery nature never opening origin passage pattern performance plane play poetic drama poetry points possible Preface present pride priests problem prose refers relation religion religious drama rites ritual Saint Samson Samson Agonistes says scene seeks sense Shaw shows significance situation soul speech spirit stage suffering temptation tempters theatre theme things thought tion tragedy tragic true verse voice women writes Yeats