Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the New York Corpus Christi Plays, by Sarah Beckwith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 294. Cloth $35.00; Paper $22.50.
For the summer feast of Corpus Christi, York produced a play that presented Christian history from Creation till Doom. Performed processionally, it was made up of about fifty pageants. The Register, a compilation of most of the scripts, survives from the fifteenth century. The play is ...