Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays - Beckwith, Sarah (Department of English at Duke University) - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226041346 - November 1, 2001
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Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays 1st edition


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In this text, Sarah Beckwith explores the lavish and complex form of the York Corpus Christi plays. She shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labour, and how theatre and sacrement combined in them to do theological work.


312 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 1, 2001
ISBN13 9780226041346
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 312
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   482 g
Language English  

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