Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Beckwith, Sarah

 
9780226041339: Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226041336 ISBN 13: 9780226041339
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2003

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In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early as 1376, the 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.

Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith 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. She argues, for instance, that the theology of Corpus Christi in the resurrection plays can only be understood as a theatrical exploration of eucharistic absence and presence. Beckwith frames her study with discussions of twentieth-century manifestations of sacramental theater in Barry Unsworth's novel Morality Play and Denys Arcand's film Jesus of Montreal, and the connections between contemporary revivals of the York Corpus Christi plays and England's heritage culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Beckwith is a professor of English at Duke University.

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In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. 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.

Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how the combination of theater and sacrament allows them to carry out important theological work. Beckwith's work engages and reveals intersections within an array of disciplines, including theater history, ritual and performance studies, religious history, theology, and the literary history of both the Middle Ages and the Reformation.

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In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. 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.

Introducing a radical new understanding of these plays as "sacramental theater," Beckwith shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labor, and how the combination of theater and sacrament allows them to carry out important theological work. Beckwith's work engages and reveals intersections within an array of disciplines, including theater history, ritual and performance studies, religious history, theology, and the literary history of both the Middle Ages and the Reformation.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226041336
ISBN 13 
9780226041339
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Anzahl der Seiten
312
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