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Emma Lipton demonstrates that the legal theory of witnessing serves as both an agent of civic community and as a model of the drama itself. This is a highly original argument, and the critical payoff is large. It says something vital about the shape and form of these plays and their ways of testing out through witnessing the inherited biblical, festive, and liturgical narratives. -Sarah Beckwith, Duke University

"""Emma Lipton's erudite and timely book expands our knowledge of witnessing as a legal and literary practice that is tactically deployed in the York cycle to constitute communities, promote civic values, and resist royal authority...Lipton's empowered model of citizenship as a witness to social ills speaks to the relevance of the English tradition of witnessing not only to medieval drama but also to modern American ideas (and ideals) of citizenship, change, and social justice."" * Studies in the Age of Chaucer * ""[A] rich, detailed, and challenging book that makes an important case for broad, late medieval cultures of witnessing, not only in medieval drama, but in the wider literary and documentary culture that shaped drama. Scholars of medieval English culture and literature of many subfields will find much that that is enlightening and thought-provoking."" * Journal of English and Germanic Philology * ""Emma Lipton demonstrates that the legal theory of witnessing serves as both an agent of civic community and as a model of the drama itself. This is a highly original argument, and the critical payoff is large. It says something vital about the shape and form of these plays and their ways of testing out through witnessing the inherited biblical, festive, and liturgical narratives."" * Sarah Beckwith, Duke University *"

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Emma Lipton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri.

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