Signifying God
Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays
312 pages, 6 halftones 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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2001, 2003
Cloth $42.50
ISBN: 9780226041346
Published November 2001
Paper $22.50
ISBN: 9780226041339
Published December 2003
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.
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