Corpus Christi Plays

In today's Claire Chats video, Claire talks about the cycles of mystery plays which were performed on the feast day of Corpus Christ in the medieval and Tudor periods.

Here are some YouTube videos about the York mystery plays:

Sources and Further Reading

• The transcript of the York Corpus Christi plays can be found in York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries by Lucy Toulmin Smith and this can be read online at https://archive.org/details/yorkplaysplaysp01smitgoog
• “York Guilds and the Corpus Christi Plays: Unwilling Participants?” by Clifford Davidson can be read at http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/eth/article/viewFile/7338/4332
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_play
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Mystery_Plays
• The Feast of Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi Plays
• York Corpus Christi Play: Cultural Context for the Performance
• York Plays: Medieval Cycle
• The History of York: Mystery Plays
• Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi Drama by T. Lerud
• The Play Called Corpus Christi by V. A. Kolve
• The York Corpus Christi Plays by Clifford Davidson
• Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain by Clifford Davidson