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The Artistic Unity of the Chester Mystery Cycle

Abstract

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<p>Prophecy and 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 consistently didactic; it never loses sight of the fact that the plays were meant to teach as well as to entertain. And finally, Chester is consistent in its tone, characterized by a sweetnes [sic] and gentleness of manners, which if not “imaginatively exciting” resulted in plays of great warmth and charm.</p> <p>-Thesis excerpt-</p>

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
Master's Thesis
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Humanities
Year
1982

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Hawkins, Jeanette T.

Subjects

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Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1186

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2026-07-24
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citation

Hawkins, Jeanette T.. The Artistic Unity of the Chester Mystery Cycle. Master's Thesis thesis, 1982. https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/187