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The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City (Hardcover, New)
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The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City (Hardcover, New)
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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
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