City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond - Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

This collection of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers' documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on the performance of the York plays in modern times. A further group of articles considers documentary evidence for the wide range of drama and mimetic ceremony in the Midlands and the West Country, reinforcing our understanding that these events took place predominately on a local parish level. The collection is rounded out with a survey of the immense changes that our reading of early English drama have undergone over the past half century.

List of contents

1. York records / 2. Other records / 3. Suppression and Change / 4. Theory/Theology / 5. Performance / 6. Summing up

About the author

Alexandra F. Johnston is Professor emerita at the University of Toronto, Canada.
David Klausner is professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra F Johnston, Alexandra F. Johnston, Johnston Alexandra F.
• Assisted by: David N Klausner (Editor), Edited By David N Klausner (Editor), Edited By David N. Klausner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2016
• EAN: 9781472478887
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-7888-7
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Middle English