Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide

This article reconsiders the York Bakers’ pageant ‘The Last Supper’: both the play’s representation of the biblical narrative and possible reasons for removal of a leaf from the text as recorded in the York register. Noting the play’s uninterrupted production throughout the protracted Reformation, I argue that the pageant likely represented the bread shared by Christ and his disciples as a common loaf rather than as eucharistic wafers. This style of representation makes sense of the pageant’s guild ascription but challenges current assumptions about why dialogue and action were eventually excised from the written text of the play.

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Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama

Turner¹

2018

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

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Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide

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