The York Mystery Plays Performance in the City Edited by Margaret Rogerson THE UNIVERSITY YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations xiv Introduction: Performance in the City Margaret Rogerson 1 Foreword: The Mystery Plays and the Community Keith Jones 25 1. Nicholas Lancaster, Richard of Gloucester and the York Corpus 31 Christi Play Richard Beadle 2. Bridging the Jurisdictional Divide: The Masons and the York 53 Corpus Christi Play Sheila K. Christie 3. Group Dynamics: The Noah Family in the York Pageant of 75 The Flood Mike Tyler 4. Embodied Enchantments: Cognitive Theory and the York Mystery 91 Plays Jill Stevenson 5. Performing Mystery Plays in 21st-century York 113 Practicalities of Modern Production: Setting the Groundwork 113 Elenid Davies and Ben Pugh The Pageant Master's Overview 116 Mike Tyler 6. The York Wagons: Construction, Dressing and Performance 125 Designing for the Fall of the Angels (Young York Civic Trust) 125 Peter Brown A Custom-built Wagon for the Crucifixion Play (Company 127 of Butchers) Tony Wright Creation of the World to the Fifth Day - the Wagon (York Guild of 132 Building) Steve Bielby 7. Interpreting the York Text: Words and Music 135 The Potters' Pageant of Pentecost (Pocklington School) 135 Emma Cunningham and Alan Heaven The Pageant of The Resurrection - Christ's Appearance to Mary 138 Magdalene (Heslington Church) Linda AH Music and the York Mystery Plays 140 Paul Toy 8. Producing The Creation and Fall of Man in 21st-century York: 145 'Thys werke is wroght now' Giveno Williams, with John Merrylees and David Richmond 9. The Communities of the York Plays 157 Alexandra F. Johnston 10. Raising the Cross: Pre-textual Theatricality and the York 165 Crucifixion Play Sharon Aronson-Lehavi 11. Confraternities and Civic Ceremonial: the Siena Palio 181 Pamela M. King 12. Devotional Acting: Sydney 2008 and Medieval York 205 Margaret Rogerson Glossary of Middle English Words 227 Bibilography 229 Index 243.