Recycling the Cycle : The City of Chester and Its Whitsun Plays.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442679085
- Chester plays
- Mysteries and miracle-plays, English-England-Chester-History and criticism
- Christian drama, English (Middle)-History and criticism
- Theater-England-Chester-History-Medieval, 500-1500
- English drama-To 1500-History and criticism
- Bible plays-History and criticism
- Cycles (Literature)
- Chester (England)-History
- PR644.C4 M555 1998
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PLAY MANUSCRIPTS -- 1 Approaches to Early Drama -- 2 Time and Space in Tudor Chester -- 3 Writing the Record -- 4 A Spectrum of Ceremonial and Entertainment -- 5 The Midsummer Celebrations -- 6 Religious Feasts and Festivals -- 7 Professionalism, Commercialism, and Self-Advertisement -- 8 The Past in the Present: The Text of the Whitsun Plays -- 9 Manuscripts, Scribes, and Owners -- 10 Medievalism and Revival -- POSTSCRIPT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
David Mills has produced a detailed study of the city of Chester Whitsun Plays in their local, physical, social, political, cultural, and religious context.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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