Jessica Dell, David Klausner

The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575 (eBook, PDF)

Religion, Drama, and the Impact of Change
Redaktion: Ostovich, Helen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317038689
• Artikelnr.: 44873174

Autorenporträt

Jessica Dell is a doctoral student at McMaster University, Canada. David Klausner is professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. Helen Ostovich is emeritus professor of English at McMaster University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the Chester Cycle in context
David Klausner
Helen Ostovich and Jessica Dell; Part 1 The Chester Script: The text of the Chester plays in 1572: a conjectural re-construction
Alexandra F. Johnston; In the beginning! A new look at Chester Play One
lines 1-51
David Mills in conjunction with Joy Mills. Part 2 Faith and Doubt: Doubt and religious drama across 16th-century England
or did the Middle Ages believe in their plays?
Erin E. Kelly; Dice at Chester's Passion
Matthew Sergi; 'Whye ys thy cloathinge nowe so reedd?': salvific blood in the Chester Ascension
John T. Sebastian; Affective piety: a 'method' for medieval actors in the Chester Cycle
Margaret Rogerson. Part 3 Elizabethan Religion(s): The Chester Cycle and early Elizabethan religion
Paul Whitfield White; 'Erazed in the booke'?: periodization and the material text of the Chester Banns
Kurt A. Schreyer. Part 4 Space and Place in Chester: When in Rome: shifting conceptions of the Chester Cycle's Roman references in pre- and post-Reformation England
Sheila Christie; Exegesis in the city: the Chester plays and earlier Chester writing
Mark Faulkner; Maintaining the realm: city
commonwealth
and crown in Chester's midsummer plays
Heather S. Mitchell-Buck. Afterword: Origins and continuities: F.M. Salter and the Chester plays
JoAnna Dutker; Bibliography; Index.