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Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays Beckwith, Sarah (Department of English at Duke University) 1st edition
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Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays
Beckwith, Sarah (Department of English at Duke University)
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 |