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The Laity, the Church and the Mystery Plays

The Laity, the Church and the Mystery Plays


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Over the course of more than two hundred and fifty years, from the fourteenth century until well after the Reformation had become established, biblical plays were performed by groups of lay people across England. From the great public performances at York and Chester, to the private collection of the Towneley MS, the plays were an index of the spiritual and social concerns of a sizeable section of urban English people. This book sets out to examine historical, theological and textual evidence of those concerns. It proposes that the plays' agenda, while irrefutably orthodox, reflected a lay spirituality which was not always in accord with the disciplines of the medieval church. The plays provided a means for the expression of the spiritual needs of an increasingly self-aware and economically important laity. The book placesÃ?Â?Ã?Â?significant emphasis on textual close reading, and balances the mnemonic simplicity of the church's syllabus for the laity against the richness of the play texts. It examines the records of the guilds and fraternities responsible for some of the plays, and considers whether, in the light of their other activities, the main audience for the plays may have been the members themselves, rather than a wider public. The Laity, the Church and the Mystery Plays: A Drama of Belonging includes a Foreword by Dame Judi Dench.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781846821530
  • Publisher: Four Courts Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Four Courts Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 521 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1846821533
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 262
  • Series Title: Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  • Sub Title: A Drama of Belonging
  • Width: 163 mm


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