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HARROWING OF HELL

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 29 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HARROWING OF HELL , an English poem in dialogue, dating from the end of the 13th century. It is written in the
East
  Midland dialect, and is generally cited as the earliest dramatic
work
  of any kind preserved in the language, though it was in reality probably intended for recitation rather than performance. It is closely allied to the kind of poem known as a debat, and the opening words" Alle herkneth to me nou A strif wille I tellen ou Of Jesu and of Satan "seem to indicate that the piece was delivered by a single performer. The subjectthe descent of Christ into Hades to succour the souls of the just, as related in the apocryphal gospel of Nicodemusis introduced in a kind of prologue; then follows the dispute between " Dominus " and " Satan " at the gate of
Hell
 ; the gatekeeper runs away, and the just are set free, while
Adam
 , Eve, Habraham,
David
 , Johannes and Moyses do homage to the deliverer. The poem
Showing tooth mechanism of harrow.
ends with a short prayer: " God, for his moder lone Let ous never thider come." Metrically, the poem is characterized by frequent alliteration imposed upon the rhymed octosyllabic couplet
Welcome, louerd, god of londe
Godes sone and godes sonde (ii. 149-15o).
The piece is obviously connected with the Easter cycle of liturgical drama, and the subject is treated in the
York
  and Townley plays.


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