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The Chester Mystery Cycle

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Author : Kevin J. Harty
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-24

The Chester Mystery Cycle written by Kevin J. Harty and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

First published in 1993. Part of a series on medieval casebooks, this volume six looks at the Chester Mystery Cycle Play manuscripts and comparisons of the York and Chester Cycle. Theologically a product of the Middle Ages, historically a product of the Renaissance, what we today call the Chester Mystery Cycle is a series of twenty-four plays dramatizing the events of salvation history from Creation until Doomsday. One of four surviving English mystery cycles, the Chester Cycle, which originally included a twenty-fifth play of the Assumption surpressed sometime in the mid-sixteenth century, was, until more modern times, last performed in 1575.

Chester Plays

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

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The Chester Cycle In Context 1555 1575

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Author : Jessica Dell
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2012

The Chester Cycle In Context 1555 1575 written by Jessica Dell and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Performing Arts categories.

Approaching individual plays in the Chester cycle from the point of view of recent and startling research findings, this volume investigates how new sources shift our understanding of the last years of cycle's performance. The essays help to clarify our current perception that it was not a nation-wide policy of suppression, but rather a complex network of local pressures, that affected the decline and eventual abandonment of civic religious drama.

The Chester Mystery Cycle The Chester Plays

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

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Practical Cues And Social Spectacle In The Chester Plays

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Author : Matthew Sergi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-11-13

Practical Cues And Social Spectacle In The Chester Plays written by Matthew Sergi and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.

Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyant live performance to adapt biblical narratives. But the original format of these fascinating performances remains cloudy, as surviving records of these plays are sparse, and the manuscripts were only written down a generation after they stopped. Revealing a vibrant set of social practices encoded in the Chester plays, Matthew Sergi provides a new methodology for reading them and a transformative look at medieval English drama. Carefully combing through the plays, Sergi seeks out cues in the dialogues that reveal information about the original staging, design, and acting. These “practical cues,” as he calls them, have gone largely unnoticed by drama scholars, who have focused on the ideology and historical contexts of these plays, rather than the methods, mechanics, and structures of the actual performances. Drawing on his experience as an actor and director, he combines close readings of these texts with fragments of records, revealing a new way to understand how the Chester plays brought biblical narratives to spectators in the noisy streets. For Sergi, plays that once appeared only as dry religious dramas come to life as raucous participatory spectacles filled with humor, camp, and devotion.

The Chester Cycle In Context 1555 1575

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Author : Dr Helen Ostovich
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2012-11-01

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The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575 considers the implications of recent archival research which has profoundly changed our view of the continuation of performances of Chester's civic biblical play cycle into the reign of Elizabeth I. Scholars now view the decline and ultimate abandonment of civic religious drama as the result of a complex network of local pressures, heavily dependent upon individual civic and ecclesiastical authorities, rather than a result of a nation-wide policy of suppression, as had previously been assumed. Approaching individual plays in the Chester cycle in the light of this new understanding, this volume investigates how new sources shift and clarify our understanding of the last years of cycle's performance. Contributors analyze how the city attempted to preserve its dramatic traditions by making adjustments to the plays in the face of protestant objections to the stage portrayal of such concepts as transubstantiation, the life of the Virgin Mary, or such apocryphal stories as the midwives at the nativity. Many of the essays focus on the performance of 1572 which took place despite the objections of the bishop of Chester and in the face of complaints from protestant churchmen and citizens.

The Chester Mystery Plays

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Author : Chester Plays
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09

The Chester Mystery Plays written by Chester Plays and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.

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The Dramatic And Rhetorical Technique Of The Chester Mystery Plays

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Author : Paul Strohm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966

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The Chester Plays A Collection Of Mysteries Founded Upon Scriptural Subjects And Formerly Represented By The Trades Of Chester At Whitsuntide

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Author : Thomas Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843

The Chester Plays A Collection Of Mysteries Founded Upon Scriptural Subjects And Formerly Represented By The Trades Of Chester At Whitsuntide written by Thomas Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with Chester plays categories.

Chester Plays Chester Mystery Plays

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Author : Committee for Economic Development
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957

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