Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226041339)

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.

Author: Sarah Beckwith
ISBN-10: 0226041336
ISBN-13: 9780226041339
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2003
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.30w x 0.70d