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The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575
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.
The Chester Mystery Cycle
This is the first edition of the medieval "Chester cycle"--24 plays dramatizing the history of the world from Creation to Doomsday--to be based on all eight extant manuscripts. Drawing on his earlier scholarly edition of the plays for the Early English Text Society (with R. M. Lumiansky), Professor Mills her presents a simplified edition of the full text. Especially helpful for the student and general reader are the marginal glosses, the brief introduction essays to each play, and the use of modern English spelling and punctuation throughout.
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Roman Chester
Much of Roman Chester has been lost through post-Roman dismantling and "recycling" of building materials, though excavations over recent years have added substantially to our knowledge of the town known as Deva. In this companion volume to Chester: AD400-1066, David Mason traces the early history of this military stronghold: the construction and early years of the fort, and the development of the garrison town and the surrounding civilian settlement. This is essentially the first study to focus solely on Roman Chester, other than excavation reports, and it represents a well-written informative history of the rise, burgeoning and decline of the Roman town and its inhabitants.
