Download or read book The York Corpus Christi Play: Selected Pageants written by Christina M. Fitzgerald and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The York Corpus Christi Play as we know it consists of 47 surviving individual plays or “pageants,” 27 of which are included in this volume; together, these 27 plays represent the cycle’s core narrative of creation, fall, and salvation. This new edition offers extensive annotation (both marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes), an illuminating introduction, and a helpful selection of background contextual materials.