LAST SUPPER, FIRST COMMUNION: Some Staging Challenges in N. Town and the Huy Nuns’ Play based on Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine

• Autores: Elisabeth Dutton, Olivia Robinson
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 44, 2023, págs. 124-160
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In March 2020 the COVID pandemic closed shops and pubs and restaurants, libraries, cinemas, gyms and theatres, and churches across Europe. As everyone learnt to shop online and technologically baffled academics tried to teach via Zoom, many churches also started to broadcast their services, in variously adapted forms, so that people could listen along at home, but, though the prayers and sermons continued, the singing stopped and, crucially for many believers, the sharing of the Eucharist became impossible. For Catholics in particular it became imperative to find creative ways in which the faithful could receive the consecrated Host, the