The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook

ISBN-13: 9780815304975 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 340 str.

Kevin J. Harty

Opis

Reprints 14 major critical and performance studies of the last 30 years, and offers a comprehensive but unannotated bibliography, of the 24-play sequence that straddled medieval and renaissance England, and was last performed in 1575 until its revival in recent times. Annotation copyright Book News

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Introduction 1. Theories and Practices in the Editing of the Chester Cycle Play-manuscripts. 2. The York Cycle and the Chester Cycle. What Do the Records Tell Us? 3. The Chester Cycle. 4. Divine Power in Chester Cycle and Late Medieval Thought. 5. The Unity and Structure of The Chester Mystery Cycle. 6. The Principle of Selection of the Chester Old Testament Plays. 7. Cain and Abel in the Chester Creation: Narrative Tradition and Dramatic Potential. 8. The Two Versions of Chester Play V: Balaam and Balak. 9. The Composition of the Chester Adoration of the Shepherds. 10. The Dramatic Strategies of Chester's Passion Pagina. 11. Comedy and Theme in the Chester Harrowing of Hell 12. Nowe ys common this daye: Enoch and Elias, Antichrist, and the Structure of the Chester Cycle. 13. The Staging of the Chester Cycle: An Alternate Theory. 14. The Scheduling of the Chester Cycle Plays. 15. The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Comprehensive Bibliography.

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Kevin J. Harty