This comprehensive and original philological study of the Chester cycle of biblical plays performed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance significantly modifies traditional views. The authors' four essays address the textual relationships, sources and influences, music, and development of the cycle. Also included are all known surviving external documents: edited and glossed transcripts, a new edition of the Chester banns,"" an annotated list of music cues, and a survey of stanza forms.""
Originally published in 1983.
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- ISBN13 9780807815229
- Publish Date 1 January 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1992
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English