Cultures of witnessing : law and the York plays / Emma Lipton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipton, Emma, 1964- author.

Series:

Middle Ages series.

The Middle Ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English--England--York.

Mysteries and miracle-plays, English.

Theater--England--York--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Theater.

City and town life--England--York--History--To 1500.

City and town life.

Witnesses in literature.

Law in literature.

Witnesses--England--History--To 1500.

Witnesses.

Law--England--History--To 1500.

Law.

Law and literature--England--History--To 1500.

Law and literature.

English drama--To 1500--History and criticism.

English drama.

York plays.

England--York.

England.

Genre:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Space and the cultures of witnessing in the York "Entry into Jerusalem"

Witnessing as speech

. Witnessing and legal affect in the York Trial plays

Witnessing and asynchronous temporality.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.

ISBN:

9780812298468

0812298462

OCLC:

1289635438