Medieval Mystery Plays YORK Religious 14th 15th 16th Centuries CORPUS CHRISTIE

by Lucy T. Smith

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } York Mystery 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 Published by Russell And Russell, New York, 1963. Dated 1963 but a later impression. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Envelope to front holds 9 color photos dated AUG98 of play performances. Signature of medieval scholar J. H. Summers to front endpaper. 8vo, 557 pages. Plays, theater, Medieval plays, literature, English Religious plays, 14th century, 15th century, 16th century, Middle English. Joseph H. Summers (1920 -2003), Rochester, NY Educator and author. Summers was a well-known literary scholar. An alumnus of Harvard University, he earned his Ph.D. there in 1950. During the 1950s he taught English at the University of Connecticut, and in the 1960s he was a faculty member at Washington University and then Michigan State University. He spent the remainder of his career at the University of Rochester, where he was a professor from 1969 to 1976, named Roswell S. Burrows Professor of English in 1976, and retired as professor emeritus in 1985. Summers was the author of several scholarly works, including George Herbert: His Religion and Art (1954), The Muse's Method: An Introduction to "Paradise Lost" (1962), and Dreams of Love and Power: On Shakespeare's Plays (1984), as well as the editor

• Publisher: Russell & Russell Publishers
• Year: 1963
• ISBN: 9780846203131
• Condition: Very Good

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