An investigation into the connections between the York Plays,
religious observance, and the role played by the city itself.
WINNER of the 2007 David Bevington Prize The York Play is the
earliest near-complete English civic mystery cycle. It evolved
constantly throughout its long performance history, but the text
that was recorded in the YorkRegister shows that it was already a
mature and elaborate civic festival by the time it was written
down. This study uncovers the Cycle's connection with worship in
York, in the sense both of devotional practice and of civichonour,
informing a particular period in the cultural history of the city.
The pageants in the Register show in their different ways how the
community which devised and performed the Cycle regarded the
celebration of the great summer feast of Corpus Christi. Moreover
the principles of selection that give the Cycle its structure
reflect the broader pattern of the liturgical calendar, with its
other feasts and fasts. The Cycle bears witness not only to
thepractices of religious observance in York, but also to the
ecclesiastical politics in which the city was caught up from the
very beginning of the fifteenth century. PAMELA KING is Professor
of Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol.
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