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Nicole R. Rice , Margaret Aziza Pappano

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University of Notre Dame Press

Date de parution

15 novembre 2024

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780268210496

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

13 Mo

The civic religious drama of late medieval England—financed, produced, and performed by craftspeople—offers one of the earliest forms of written literature by a non-elite group in Europe. In this innovative study, Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano trace an artisanal perspective on medieval and early modern civic relations, analyzing selected plays from the cities of York and Chester individually and from a comparative perspective, in dialogue with civic records. Positing a complex view of relations among merchants, established artisans, wage laborers, and women, the two authors show how artisans used the cycle plays to not only represent but also perform their interests, suggesting that the plays were the major means by which the artisans participated in civic polity.

In addition to examining selected plays in the context of artisanal social and economic practices, Rice and Pappano also address relations between performance and historical transformation, considering how these plays, staged for nearly two centuries, responded to changes in historical conditions. In particular, they pay attention to how the pressures of Reformist governments influenced the meaning and performance of the civic religious drama in both towns. Ultimately, the authors provide a new perspective on how artisans can be viewed as social actors and agents in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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Publié par

University of Notre Dame Press

Date de parution

15 novembre 2024

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780268210496

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

13 Mo

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Series Editors: David Aers, Sarah Beckwith, and James Simpson

R E C E N T T I T L E S I N T H E S E R I E S

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Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More(2013) Thomas Betteridge

Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463–1549(2015) Sebastian Sobecki

Mysticism and Reform, 1400–1750(2015) Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith, eds.

T H E C I V I C C Y C L E S

Artisan Drama and Identity in Premoder n England

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University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rice, Nicole R., 1973 – The civic cycles : artisan drama and identity in premodern England / Nicole R. Rice & Margaret Aziza Pappano. pages cm. — ( Nd reformations: medieval & early modern) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-268-03900-4 ( paperback) — ISBN 0-268-03900-3 ( paperback) 1. York plays. 2. Chester plays. 3. English drama — To 1500 — History and criticism. 4. Literature and society — England — History — To 1500. 5. Artisans — England — History — To 1500. 6. Theater — England —York — History — Medieval, 500 –1500. 7. Theater — England — Chester — History — Medieval, 500 –1500. 8. Religious drama, English — History and criticism. I. Pappano, Margaret Aziza, 1967– II. Title. PR644.Y6R53 2015 822'.051609 — dc23

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∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

To Howard, Toby, and Helena N. R. R.

To Adnan and Hamza M. A. P.

List of Figures Acknowledgments

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Contents

ix xi

Introduction: Craft Communities and Artisan Drama 1 New Beginnings: Processions, Plays, and Civic Politics 41 in York and Chester “Whom Seek Ye, Sirs?”: Searching and Salvation in 83 York’sHerod and the Magi Fair Trade: Masters, Servants, and Local Identity in 117 the York Cycle Spinsters, Laborers, and Alewives: The Regulation of 161 Women’s Work in Chester Last Judgment in York and Chester: Artisans, Merchants, 209 and the Performance of Civic Charity Epilogue 255

List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

265 266 323 343

Figures

Figures lacking page numbers are in the gallery following p. 164. Figure i.1.First folio of Chester Goldsmiths’ Company Book (CALS ZG 12/1). Reproduced with permission of the Chester Gold-smiths’ Company. 29 Figure 1.1.York Corpus Christi Play: Pageant Route of 1486. © Meg Twycross. Reproduced with her permission. 45 Figure 1.2.Map of premodern Chester. © Robert W. Barrett, Jr. Repro-duced with his permission. 47 Figure 1.3.God’s speech from the York Tanners’ Play. © The British Li-brary Board, Additional MS 35290, fol. 6v. Reproduced with permission. Figure 3.1.Last Supper panel from York Minster. © Dean and Chapter of York. Reproduced by kind permission.

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Figure 4.1.

Addition to the York Glovers’ play by John Clerke. © The British Library Board, Additional MS 35290, fol. 23v. Repro-duced with permission.

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