Richard Beadle
Autore di York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling (Oxford's World Classic)
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The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus Christi Play as recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290,… (2009) 5 copie
New Science Out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle (1995) 1 copia
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There’s really only one dud essay in the whole lot which, ironically, is on the subject that brought me here in the first place. I’m reading the Coventry cycle and it quickly became apparent that it’s not like other plays. The text is obviously a far smaller part of it than I’m used to and I needed something to make it accessible (I’m reading the EETS edition so there’s not the usual introduction you might get in a Penguin). The essays on the other cycles were very helpful, especially Beadle’s About the York cycle. Reading Coventry, it’s obviously a ritualised religious behaviour, but why go to all the effort when you’d think Catholicism would have enough ritual already. Beadle makes the interesting observation that the cycles began their life in the generation after the Black Death, so perhaps we’re seeing some sort of attempt at a massive communal magic spell. It didn’t work of course, but I certainly prefer this response to a pandemic than say, oh I don’t know, invading the Ukraine?
Most useful though is Meg Twycross’ essay on staging. This was exactly what I needed for the imagination. There’s also an essay on modern production which was helpful.… (altro)