ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|28 pages
The Chester Script
part 2|64 pages
Faith and Doubt
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
‘Whye ys thy cloathinge nowe so reedd?’: Salvific Blood in the Chester Ascension
part 3|38 pages
Elizabethan Religion(s)
chapter Chapter 8|14 pages
‘Erazed in the booke’?: Periodization and the Material Text of the Chester Banns
part 4|54 pages
Space and Place in Chester