Excerpt from History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 12 The' Verlorene Sohn' ('Prodigal Son'), by Burchard Waldis, deserves special notice; The 'Parabel vom verlorenen Sohn, ' by Hans Salat; Comedies embodying personal satire - The 'Lutherisches Strebkatz' - 'Bockspiel Martini Luthers' - 'A Secret Dialogue' - 'Gemeine Beicht der Protestanten zu Soest' - Polemical tendency of an allegorical play; Thomas Kirchmair, the most prolific Protestant controversial dramatist - His 'Pammachius' and the coronation of the Pope by the devil as a 'Christian and right merry play, ' 74-84 - His 'Mordbrandt on the terrible plots of the Pope and the Papists - How he treats the Catholic doctrines in his 'Kaufmann'; The 'Hofteufel' (Court-devil) of John Chryseus; 'A Ratschlag conference of Pope Paul III.' - The Catholic worship ridiculed on the stage; Tendency plays of Joachim Greff - Opinion of the latter on the Catholic Passion plays - Religious controversy in various Biblical plays - Bartholomew Kruger - Philip Agricola of Eisleben; The character of a play in honour of the centenary of Lutheranism; Religious polemical plays against all non-Lutheran religionists: Comedies of Nicodemus Frischlin, Zacharias Rivander, Martin Rinckhart; A polemical comedy by Bartholomew Ringwalt - Devils play a leading part on the stage and form 'the chief delight and attraction of comedies' - Devils' songs and devils dances in a play by Bartholomew Kruger - What numbers of devils appear in many pieces - Also in the plays of Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick - Repulsive representations, on a par with the devil-tales and hell-pictures of the Dutch painters; The 'Hexenspiegel' ('Mirror of Witches') of Thomas Birck - Demoralisation of taste; III. Secular Plays - Pictures of the Time and its Morals - English Comedians Dramas of Murder and Immorality; Hans Sachs the most prolific dramatiser of secular matter; James Ayrer - His coarse stage artifices - Two comedies of Thomas Birck; Comedies from school life by Martin Hayneccius and George Mauritius About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."