List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- From Medieval Religious Festival to the Festival of Britain -- Dramatic Transformations: Performance Spaces and Scripts -- A Leap of Faith -- Theatre of Cruelty -- Theatre of the People -- Storm Clouds over the Museum Gardens -- Indoor Mysteries -- Theatre of the Streets -- Epilogue: Ongoing Mysteries -- App. 1 Music in the Outdoor Mysteries -- App. 2 Biographies -- App. 3 Digest of Plays, Directors, and Performers -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary
Playing a Part in History examines the ways in which the revival of The York Mystery Plays transformed them for twentieth- and twenty-first-century audiences
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index
