Playing a Part in History : : The York Mysteries, 1951 - 2006 / / Margaret Rogerson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rogerson, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue --; 1. From Medieval Religious Festival to the Festival of Britain --; 2. Dramatic Transformations: Performance Spaces and Scripts --; 3. A Leap of Faith --; 4. Theatre of Cruelty --; 5. Theatre of the People --; 6. Storm Clouds over the Museum Gardens --; 7. Indoor Mysteries --; 8. Theatre of the Streets --; Epilogue: Ongoing Mysteries --; Appendix 1: Music in the Outdoor Mysteries --; Appendix 2: Biographies --; Appendix 3: Digest of Plays, Directors, and Performers --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442688803; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442688803
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Margaret Rogerson.

The York Mystery Plays are a cycle of originally performed on wagons in the city. They date from the fourteenth century and Biblical narrative from Creation to Last Judgment. After nearly four hundred years without a performance, a revival of the York Mysteries began in 1951 when local amateurs led by professional theatre practitioners staged them during the festival of Britain. Playing a Part in History examines the ways in which the revival of these plays transformed them for twentieth- and twenty-first-century audiences. Considering such topics as the contemporary popularity of the plays, the agendas of the revivalists, and major production differences, Margaret Rogerson provides a fascinating comparison of medieval and modern English drama. Drawing extensively on archival material, and newspaper and academic reviews of the plays in recent years, Playing a Part in History is not only an illuminating account of early English drama, but also of the ways in which theatre allows people to interact with the past.