PLAYING A PART IN HISTORY: THE YORK MYSTERIES, 1951-2006.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, with actor illustration in black to the upper board, in dustwrapper. With 14 black and white illustrations. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with near fine, lightly rubbed, toned and marked dustwrapper, which has a small nick to the tail of the spine.

'[The book] examines the ways in which the revival of [The York Mystery Plays] transformed them for twentieth- and twenty-first-century audiences. Considering such topics as the contemporary popularity of the plays, the agendas of the revivalists, and major production differences, Margaret Rogerson provides a fascinating comparison of medieval and modern English drama' (publisher's blurb).