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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Chester Mystery Cycle"”.
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The Artistic Unity of the Chester Mystery Cycle
… fulfillment are essential to the unity of the cycle, but prophecy with its fulfillment is only one of the elements which contribute to an organic whole. The most obvious unifying device is Chester's reliance on a uniform stanza. This single metric form is absent in the other cycles. Chester is …
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Flesh and spirit onstage: chronotopes of performance in medieval English theatre
… contestation and engagement. The communal mystery plays performed on Corpus Christi day in medieval England created a space and time for communicative bodies to tell shared narratives in a ritual effort to strengthen, purify, and heal souls. Performance within the transubstantial chronotope …
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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, …