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York Mystery Plays

Author : Richard Beadle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611239
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book York Mystery Plays written by Richard Beadle and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Mike Poulton
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848425385
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book The York Mystery Plays written by Mike Poulton and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new version by Mike Poulton was first performed in York Minster in 2016, with a vast community cast.

The York Mystery Plays

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1903153352
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The York Mystery Plays written by Margaret Rogerson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Corpus Christi Plays

Author : Clifford Davidson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444539
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The York Corpus Christi Plays written by Clifford Davidson and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Corpus Christi

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822216964
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Corpus Christi written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: We are going to tell you an old and familiar story. But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels t

Playing a Part in History

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099246
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Playing a Part in History written by Margaret Rogerson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing a Part in History examines the ways in which the revival of The York Mystery Plays transformed them for twentieth- and twenty-first-century audiences.

The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City

Author : Pamela M. King
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843840987
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City written by Pamela M. King and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the connections between the York Plays, religious observance, and the role played by the city itself.

The Wakefield Mystery Plays

Author : Martial Rose
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393004830
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Wakefield Mystery Plays written by Martial Rose and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1969 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.

The Chester Mystery Plays

Author : Maurice Hussey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chester Mystery Plays written by Maurice Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Four Middle English Mystery Cycles

Author : Martin Stevens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858720
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Four Middle English Mystery Cycles written by Martin Stevens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Stevens examines the four extant complete cycles of Middle English mystery plays in light of the most recent research on the manuscripts, sources, and records relating to the medieval drama. The first comprehensive treatment of all four of the cycles, the book emphasizes the study of the surviving manuscripts as texts distinct from their performance history. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Ancient Mysteries Described

Author : William Hone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Mysteries Described written by William Hone and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Morality Play

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525434097
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Morality Play written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route. When their traditional morality plays fail to garner them an audience, they begin to stage the “the play of Thomas Wells”—their own depiction of the real-life drama unfolding within the village around the murder of a young boy. The villagers believe they have already identified the killer, and the troupe believes their play will be a straightforward depiction of justice served. But soon the players soon learn that the details of the crime are elusive, and the lines between performance and reality become blurred as they discover, scene by scene, line by line, what really happened. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, Morality Play is at once a masterful work of historical fiction, a gripping murder mystery, and a literary work of the first order.

The York Realist

Author : Peter Gill
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571348947
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The York Realist written by Peter Gill and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early 1960s, Yorkshire. Farm labourer George is cast in an amateur staging of the York Mystery Plays. His world is shaken when he falls for metropolitan assistant director John and the two men embark on a clandestine affair. Peter Gill's influential play is not only a finely drawn love story; it is also a touching reflection on the rival forces of family, class, and the origins and ownership of art. The York Realist was premiered by the English Touring Theatre at The Lowry, Salford Quays in November 2001; it moved to the Bristol Old Vic that same year and, in 2002, to the Royal Court Theatre, London. The play was revived by the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2018. Winner of the London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. 'As a love story, The York Realist is riveting and heart-rendering... Gill is always terrifically perceptive about male tenderness. The personal and political are subtly united in a study of English masculinity, class and culture. Such outstanding work.' Independent on Sunday 'Sensationally fine and poignant.' Evening Standard 'It has the Lawrentian qualities of emotional intelligence, raw honesty and fascination with the intersection of class and sex... It is about the way the English, however hard they try, can never finally escape their origins. But, far from being emotionally conservative, it is adventurous, witty and fresh... The play comes like a rare blast of reality.' Guardian

Modern Mysteries

Author : Katie Normington
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843841289
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Modern Mysteries written by Katie Normington and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of the modern staging of the medieval mystery plays, richly illustrated with stills and other photographs. The turn of the last millennium saw a sudden flourishing in the revival of the medieval mystery plays, with a number of different productions being staged across the country and further afield. But why were they staged? What features of the plays attracted the modern-day director? What can the mystery plays offer today's producers, directors, participants and audiences? This book seeks to answer these questions. Beginning with an exploration of the original staging conditions, the study goes on to examine the reasons why the plays are produced today, and through a series of case studies looks at how notions of community, identity and space are articulated within contemporary stagings: it considers productions at Chester, Chichester, Leeds, Lichfield, Lincoln, Toronto, Worsbrough, and York, as well as productions by the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. Importantly, the author uses evidence gleaned from interviews with directors and producers, and observation of rehearsals, and performances, to bring a fresh and modern perspective to bear. Richly illustrated. KATIENORMINGTON is Professor of Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London.

A Play of Treachery

Author : Margaret Frazer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101151641
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Play of Treachery written by Margaret Frazer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the behest of his powerful patron, Joliffe journeys to France to act as a servant to the widowed duchess Jacquetta of Bedford?while actually training in spycraft. But when a member of the duchess?s household is murdered, Joliffe learns just how dangerous secrets can be...

Early English Drama

Author : John C. Coldewey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135778892
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Early English Drama written by John C. Coldewey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of plays from late-medieval England includes a rich selection of noncycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-known pageants from the cycle plays and some theatrical fragments never before anthologized. These plays and fragments illustrate the most widespread early theatrical practices in England and represent drama that fed directly into the Elizabethan theatrical experience.

York Mystery Plays

Author : Richard Beadle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192837103
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book York Mystery Plays written by Richard Beadle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 subjectmatter 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 introductionwhich examines the history of the cycle and discusses the immensely popular modern productions in York and elsewhere.