York Mystery Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook York Mystery Plays write by Richard Beadle. This book was released on 1999-06-17. York Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of the cycle was governed by subject matter of enduring spiritual significance, both to its contemporary audience and in later literary and artistic tradition, and the selection reflects these concerns. Included are plays on the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ, and the Last Judgement. The Passion sequence has been expanded by six of the eight plays generally attributed to the great poetic dramatist known as the York Realist: the authentic text of these plays is not otherwise available in paperback. As well as providing detailed annotation, this edition offers an introduction which examines the history of the cycle and discusses the immensely popular modern productions in York and elsewhere. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The York Mystery Plays
The York Mystery Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The York Mystery Plays write by Margaret Rogerson. This book was released on 2011. The York Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on the York Mystery Plays, uniting voices from the scholarly world with the York community that has assumed responsibility for their production today. The York Play of Corpus Christi, also known as the York Cycle, has been central to the study of early English theatre for over a century and a touchstone for the revival of medieval dramatic practice for over fifty years. But these two endeavours... have often found little common ground. This volume therefore accomplishes something very important. It brings together scholars of medieval English drama and places them in dialogue with experienced practtitioners from the community. Together, they share a common commitment to understanding how performances matter to the communities that produce them, and how plays intersect with other public activities. CAROL SYMES, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana. This volume provides a wealth of new insights into the performance of mystery plays in medieval York and their modern revival. It utilises both academic study, and the practical experience of those who now produce the cycle within York itself on wagons in the street, in an approximation of their original performance. A number of topics are covered. The manuscript is linked to Richard III; the Masons are introduced as non-guildsmen in an enterprise assumed to be guild-specific; families, not just male heads of households, are shown to be important to the dramatic narrative; and cognitive theory elucidates performance past and present.Recent productions are discussed in lively detail by those directly responsible for them, leading to analyses of performances in Israel, Spain, and Australia, not all of them of a predictable kind, which offer further angles on the medieval dramatic tradition. Professor Margaret Rogerson teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. Contributors: Margaret Rogerson, Keith Jones, Richard Beadle, Sheila K. Christie,Mike Tyler, Jill Stevenson, Elenid Davies, Ben Pugh, Peter Brown, Tony Wright, Steve Bielby, Emma Cunningham, Alan Heaven, Linda Ali, Paul Toy, Gweno Williams, John Merrylees, David Richmond, Alexandra F. Johnston, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Pamela M. King
The York Mystery Plays
The York Mystery Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The York Mystery Plays write by Mike Poulton. This book was released on 2016. The York Mystery Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new version by Mike Poulton was first performed in York Minster in 2016, with a vast community cast.
The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City
The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City write by Pamela M. King. This book was released on 2006. The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An investigation into the connections between the York Plays, religious observance, and the role played by the city itself.
The York Corpus Christi Plays
The York Corpus Christi Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The York Corpus Christi Plays write by Clifford Davidson. This book was released on 2011-10-01. The York Corpus Christi Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been transformed into the true body and blood of Jesus. In this way the "cultus Dei" thus celebrated allowed the people to venerate the Eucharistic bread in order that they might be stimulated to devotion and brought symbolically, even mystically into a relationship with the central moments of salvation history. Perhaps it is logical, therefore, that pageants and plays were introduced in order to access yet another way of visualizing and participating in those events. Thus the "invisible things" of the divine order "from the creation of the world" might be displayed. The York Corpus Christi Plays, contained in London, British Library, MS. Add. 35290 and comprising more than thirteen thousand lines of verse, actually represent a unique survival of medieval theater. They form the only complete play cycle verifiably associated with the feast of Corpus Christi that is extant and was performed at a specific location in England.
