Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Space and the cultures of witnessing in the York "Entry into Jerusalem" -- Chapter 2. Witnessing as speech -- Chapter 3. Witnessing and legal affect in the York Trial plays -- Chapter 4. Witnessing and asynchronous temporality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
"In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship"-- Provided by publisher
