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British Saint Play Records, Clifford Davidson
British Saint Play Records, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
A list of the saint plays and pageants of medieval Britain compiled by Clifford Davidson. This reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU, with corrections to the formatting of the original index, which appears to have been compiled in 2002.
York Guilds And The Corpus Christi Plays: Unwilling Participants?, Clifford Davidson
York Guilds And The Corpus Christi Plays: Unwilling Participants?, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
Maud Sellers, in 1912, introduced the notion that the York guilds which produced the civic Corpus Christi plays found them to be ‘an intolerable and vexatious burden.’ The idea has persisted. However, the picture of guild support for the plays is complex, especially during the period of economic and civic decline which in fact impoverished some guilds and left others with a membership deficit due to the inability to maintain their numbers. York, like other cities, was unable to maintain its population without immigration from outside since the death rate exceeded the birth rate. Pestilence and disease played a part …
British Saint Play Records: Coping With Ambiguity, Clifford Davidson, Lawrence Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin
British Saint Play Records: Coping With Ambiguity, Clifford Davidson, Lawrence Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin
Clifford Davidson
This review article surveys points of view on the existence and performance of saints plays in England and includes reviews of the most recent work on saints plays as presented in panels at the Leeds Medieval Conference, July 1999.