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

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

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Author/Contributor(s): Beckwith, Sarah
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 12/01/2003
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.