{"product_id":"signifying-god-social-relation-and-symbolic-act-in-the-york-corpus-christi-plays-paperback","title":"Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Beckwith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSignifying God, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMorality Play\u003c\/i\u003e and Denys Arcand's film \u003ci\u003eJesus of Montreal, \u003c\/i\u003e and the connections between contemporary revivals of the York Corpus Christi plays and England's heritage culture.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSignifying God\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroducing 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Beckwith\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Duke University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.7 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42039167221840,"sku":"9780226041339","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/SVo0WG95cW9jTys0cWliWm5oVjFrUT09.webp?v=1771841376","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/signifying-god-social-relation-and-symbolic-act-in-the-york-corpus-christi-plays-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}