The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook

by Harty,Kevin J.; Harty,Kevin J.

• ISBN13: 9780815304975
• ISBN10: 0815304978
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Theories and Practices in the Editing of the Chester Cycle Play-manuscripts	p. 3
The York Cycle and the Chester Cycle. What Do the Records Tell Us?	p. 18
The Chester Cycle	p. 36
Divine Power in Chester Cycle and Late Medieval Thought	p. 48
The Unity and Structure of The Chester Mystery Cycle	p. 69
The Principle of Selection of the Chester Old Testament Plays	p. 89
Cain anal Abel in the Chester Creation: Narrative Tradition and Dramatic Potential	p. 103
The Two Versions of Chester Play V: Balaam and Balak	p. 119
The Composition of the Chester Adoration of the Shepherds	p. 126
The Dramatic Strategies of Chester's Passion Pagina	p. 146
Comedy and Theme in the Chester Harrowing of Hell	p. 162
"Nowe ys common this daye": Enoch and Elias, Antichrist, and the Structure of the Chester Cycle	p. 171
The Staging of the Chester Cycle: An Alternate Theory	p. 199
The Scheduling of the Chester Cycle Plays	p. 231
The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Comprehensive Bibliography	p. 258
Index to Critics Cited in the Bibliography	p. 307
General Index	p. 315
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