Recycling the Cycle : : The City of Chester and Its Whitsun Plays /

Recycling the Cycle : : The City of Chester and Its Whitsun Plays / / David Mills.

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A consciousness of the past has been an essential determinant of community in the city of Chester, England. This awareness and fascination has been bolstered by a strong civic tradition of drama. In particular, the city's Whitsun Plays have been a vehicle for communicating the myth of the city&...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Mills, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1998
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Early English Drama
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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