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The York Corpus Christi Play as we know it consists of 47 surviving individual plays or “pageants,” 27 of which are included in this volume; together, these 27 plays represent the cycle’s core narrative of creation, fall, and salvation. This new edition offers extensive annotation (both marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes), an illuminating introduction, and a helpful selection of background contextual materials.

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Comments on The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama .. .the ideal undergraduate text for demonstrating the teeming richness of the earliest British theatre. -- Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Davidson College Fitzgerald and Sebastian ['s anthology is] impressively attentive to developments in the field and ... makes a major contribution to the study and teaching of early English drama. -- Theresa Coletti, Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland College Park

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Christina M. Fitzgerald is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Toledo.

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