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script of the York’s Paternoster play. It was never returned {REED York 365-8).
In 1576 the diocesan court of York forbade the town of Wakefield to perform
any of its traditional plays which portrayed “God the Father, God the Son, or
God the Holy Ghost, or the administration of either the Sacrament of baptism or
of the Lord’s Supper . . . or anything which [would lead] to the maintenance of
superstition and idolatry” (Wickham Stages 115-16). With such sweeping and
vague injunctions enforced by church and state combined, officials in Chester,
Boston, and Lincoln must have realized that attempts to slip by Protestant
objections by presenting “purged” versions of their traditional plays or even new
plays based on Old Testament or Apocryphal stories was futile.
Bowling Green State University
James H. Forse
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