Signifying God Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays

Sarah Beckwith

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First staged as early as 1376, the York Corpus Christi plays were performed annually until the late 1500s and involved as much as a tenth of the city in multiple performances at a dozen or more locations. Signifying God shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how theater and sacrament combined in them to do important theological work.

Book information

ISBN:	9780226041339
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Imprint:	The University of Chicago Press
Pub date:	02 Dec 2003
Edition:	1
DEWEY:	822.051609
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	312
Weight:	390g
Height:	215mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	21mm