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Festivals and plays in late medieval Britain / Clifford Davidson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR641 .D37 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Clifford.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--To 1500--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Mysteries and miracle-plays, English--England--History and criticism.
- Mysteries and miracle-plays, English.
- Christianity and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Christianity and literature.
- Festivals.
- History.
- Theater--Political aspects.
- Literature and society.
- England.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Politics and literature.
- Great Britain.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Theater--Political aspects--England--History--To 1500.
- Theater.
- Festivals--England--History--To 1500.
- Cycles (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- Contents:
- Part I : the landscape of festival drama
- Playing and the ritual year
- "Corpus Christi play" and the Feast of Corpus Christi
- The York Corpus Christi Guild and drama
- Play and spectacle at Pentecost
- Part II : some aspects of two genres of festival drama
- Suffering and the York plays
- The vernacular plays for Good Friday and Easter from MS. E Museo 160.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-196) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780754660521
- 0754660524
- OCLC:
- 123912678
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