The idea that the plays were pushed out of the churches and
into the piazze is oversimplified. The Church had worries
about certain dramatic excesses, but in fact dramas
continued to be performed in the Chuches through the Middle
Ages. Dramas were also performed in secular spaces in the
open-air, but more often than not this was an entirely
separate phenomenon with its own vernacular and secular
traditions.
Laura Jacobus
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