Resumen de The York Cycle and Fisterra Resurrection Plays: A Comparative Study
The Resurrection of Christ plays an essential and central role not only in the history of human redemption but also in the dramatic tradition of medieval Europe as part of the liturgy of Easter Sunday. This paper aims at comparing the Resurrection Play representing a popular dramatization of the Resurrection of Christ performed in the English city of York during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to the one of Fisterra, a small village on the coast of Galicia (Spain), paying special attention to the dramatic and performing elements in both plays. Conclusions point to a more liturgical nature of the Fisterra Play (although it can also be distinguished as 'theatre') and to a full dramatic development of the York Play. Common to both plays is their popular essence and didactic purpose.
