York Corpus Christi Plays (eBook)

Clifford Davidson (Herausgeber)

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2011
614 Seiten
Medieval Institute Publications (Verlag)
978-1-58044-453-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;cultus Dei"e; 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 "e;invisible things"e; of the divine order "e;from the creation of the world"e; 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.

Autor

Clifford Davidson is Professor Emeritus from Western Michigan University specializing in medieval drama.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2011
• Reihe/Serie: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
• Verlagsort: Kalamazoo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Schlagworte: Christian drama • medieval drama • Medieval Studies • Mysteries & Miracle Plays • Theater, Film and Dance
• ISBN-10: 1-58044-453-9 / 1580444539
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58044-453-8 / 9781580444538