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Before modern attempts to reconstruct large-scale productions of the York plays, scholars debated just how the surviving manuscript was performed in medieval times.
But even within this generally-accepted framework, scholars manage to differ considerably in their interpretation of exactly what constitutes a performance. Chief points of contention include estimating the amount of time it would take for each of the 48 surviving plays to be performed and the organizational system for moving the wagons from station to station. Other details which have not previously figured strongly in time studies, and which consequently have not been fully examined, include the number of performance stations along the route and the number of plays which actually participate in any given year.
by Dennis
G. Jerz
June, 1997 -- first published in (Re)Soundings
16 Jul 1999 -- posted here
02 Jan 2001
-- last modified
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