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

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

Sarah Beckwith

312 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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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 pl...

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