The York Mystery Plays

Author : Richard Beadle,Pamela M. King
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191611230

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York Mystery Plays by Richard Beadle,Pamela M. King Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781903153352

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The York Mystery Plays by Margaret Rogerson Pdf

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

Author : Mike Poulton
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1848425384

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The York Mystery Plays by Mike Poulton Pdf

This new version by Mike Poulton was first performed in York Minster in 2016, with a vast community cast.

Author : Clifford Davidson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580444538

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The York Corpus Christi Plays by Clifford Davidson Pdf

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.

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802099242

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Playing a Part in History by Margaret Rogerson Pdf

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.

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822216965

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Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally Pdf

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

Author : Pamela M. King
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843840985

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The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City by Pamela M. King Pdf

An investigation into the connections between the York Plays, religious observance, and the role played by the city itself.

Author : Richard Beadle,Pamela M. King
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192837109

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York Mystery Plays by Richard Beadle,Pamela M. King Pdf

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.

Author : Maurice Hussey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : English drama
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030006574497

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The Chester Mystery Plays by Maurice Hussey Pdf

Author : Martial Rose
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : 039300483X

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The Wakefield Mystery Plays by Martial Rose Pdf

The complete cycle of thirty-two plays.

Author : Martin Stevens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400858729

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Four Middle English Mystery Cycles by Martin Stevens Pdf

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.

Author : Mike Poulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : York plays
ISBN : OCLC:1038808982

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The York Mystery Plays by Mike Poulton Pdf

The story of good versus evil, of life and death, and of love, betrayal, loss and hope. 'The York Mystery Plays' are a dramatic cycle on a monumental scale, first performed over 700 years ago in the city of York.

Author : Katie Normington
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1843841282

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Modern Mysteries by Katie Normington Pdf

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.

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525434092

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Morality Play by Barry Unsworth Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Gill
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571348947

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The York Realist by Peter Gill Pdf

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