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I actually like both of these plays by the Wakefield Master But hands down everyone will say the 2nd Shepherds Play is much better English Although this isn t as well known as the Second Shepherd s Play which is admittedly bizarre this is an interesting play in its own right One thing that makes it interesting is that it does a lot of the same things that the Second Shepherd s does in order to get an audience of medieval northern English shepherds and farmers to identify with the shepherd characters bemoans how much rural people suffer for instance And there s a comparable element of the carnivalesque in this play though in the Second Shepherd s it s much less directly carnivalesque with Mak s sheep stealing incident But here there s pretty overtly carnival festival references with the shepherds playing a kind of make believe in which the Gil the first shepherd pretends to lead a flock of sheep to market even though he s going to the market to buy replacements because all his sheep died John the second shepherd pretends to stop him and in something that could come directly out of Punch and Judy Gil threatens to beat him about the head Then when Slowpace the third shepherd arrives the three sit down to a pretend feast with a ton of fancy dishes sauces condiments wines and ales None of it s real but they have a jolly good time pretending. First Shepherd's playjolt At the same time there s one major thing that this play does that departs from the Second Shepherd s This play engages in a kind of Biblical exegesis which was very popular in the medieval period among scholars and theologians but probably wouldn t have been part of the everyday theology of common people and certainly wouldn t be how first century BCE shepherds in Palestine were thinking Basically the idea was that everything in Jewish scriptures and as much as possible of Greco Roman material though Roman than Greek when this play was written in the 1400s I believe needed to be brought into a consistently line with Christian doctrine and so Jewish scriptures were re interpreted so that Jewish patriarchs because types of Christ that is they represented elements of Jesus story and therefore hinted at the coming of Jesus Along with this both Jewish and Greco Roman prophecy was re interpreted as referring to Jesus whenever it could be read so even at a stretch and pretty much always by ignoring the original context from which these sources come The reason this is relevant is because there s a lengthy section in the First Shepherd s Play immediately after an angel announces Jesus birth that the shepherds talk through all these Jewish and Greco Roman prophecies that supposedly foretold the coming of Jesus It s likely quite boring dramaturgically but because the goal of these plays was to inform a public that could not read the Bible about theological matters this serves a clear pedagogical function which isn t as strong in the Second Shepherd s Play. First Shepherd's play dramahood be EGmGaQWrWhY English
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