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  • Record Number: 7612
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): McKinnell , John S.
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  • Title: Producing the York Mary Plays [The author discusses the problems facing modern producers of mystery plays, using a production of the Death, Assumption, and Coronation of the Virgin as his primary example. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Medieval English Theatre 12, 2 ( 1990): Pages 101 - 123.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Literature- Drama York Plays- Death, Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary, Virgin, Saint in Literature Theaters- Production
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
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  • Illustrations: Six Illustrations. Figure One shows the Assumption wagon, seen from an upper window at Grape Lane, Petergate; Figure Two shows Thomas using the Passion curtain at Minster Gates; Figure Three shows Mulier amicta sole et luna sub pedibus eius: anonymous woodcut, Savoy, c. 1490; Figure Four shows the Leuven Assumption wagon, 1594; Figure Five shows the lower pulley blocks; Figure Six shows the steering bar.
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Durham
  • Conference Info: - , -
  • Year of Publication: 1990.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 01433784