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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Chester Cycle"”.
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Stages of Belief: The Nature of Audience Response in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
… (York), the "Sacrifice of Isaac" (Brome), the Chester Cycle, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a variety of antitheatrical texts, elegies and other texts written in response to the death of famed early modern actor Richard Burbage, and the biography of eighteenth-century actor Lavinia Fenton. …
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'Dost Thou Speak like a King?': Enacting Tyranny on the Early English Stage
… as ambitious "history of the world" civic cycles or as individual plays put on by traveling companies or parish actors, did not attempt to define or proscribe ideals of kingly behavior. On the contrary, the superstars of the early English stage were tyrants, such as Herod, Pharoah, Pilate, …