DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: York Mystery Plays, Real Presence Of Christ In The Eucharist, Moveable Feast
23 Apr 2016
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The york cycle of mystery plays is one of the great literary and theatrical monuments of the later middle ages in england. It was quite an undertaking for the city: 300 speaking parts, nancially challenging. Used for religious purposes to glorify god, but also for prestige, to make the city look better. Corpus christi was a movable feast (like mlmh)= celebrated the real presence of the body of christ in the host. The feast and the cycle are not directly connected. The york cycle was about the fall + redemption of man + various stories of the bible. Ex: the deception by the devil = the fall from heaven + the redemption through the incarnation, passion and resurrection of chris t. Because of there long sequences they separated the cycle into pageants + were given to craft-guilds which provided script (of unknown writers) and created oats/ stages for the pageant to be performed on.
