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The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City Margaret Rogerson (ed.) York Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press, 2011. £50, hb., 248 pp. 26 b/w ill. ISBN 9781903153352
This collection of essays represents a brave attempt to fuse the work of scholars who have written about the York Play with those practitioners who wish to stage the plays in modern production. Margaret Rogerson has made the sensible decision to organise the scholarly contributions so that they effectively surround the practitioner accounts. This is a challenging task, however, because although the subject matter is ostensibly the same - insights into medieval and modern productions, there is a gulf between the objectives, knowledge and experience of the two groups of contributors. There is a...