Word: whitsun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life Was a Unity. In that year, when Shakespeare and Marlowe were twelve, and the Church of England was in its infancy, the townsfolk of Wakefield in Yorkshire were told that their annual Whitsun-week cycle of 32 mystery plays could no longer portray "God the Father, God the Sonne or God the Holie Ghoste or the administration of either the Sacra ments of baptisme or of the Lordes Supper." This effectively banned the plays altogether-as was intended by Queen Elizabeth I, who was determined to break the hold of Roman ritual on English minds...