David Mills 
Recycling the Cycle [PDF ebook] 
The City of Chester and Its Whitsun Plays

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A consciousness of the past has been an essential determinant of community in the city of Chester, England. This awareness and fascination has been bolstered by a strong civic tradition of drama. In particular, the city”s Whitsun Plays have been a vehicle for communicating the myth of the city”s medieval heritage, helping to reinforce the sense of history that is part of Chester”s identity.

Building up the material in REED: Chester, David Mills has produced a detailed study of Chester”s Whitsun Plays in their local, physical, social, political, cultural, and religious context. A continuum has survived between the Middle Ages and the present day, providing not only an understanding of the plays themselves, but a narrative of the ways in which manuscripts survive and the functions that they serve. The continued performance of these plays is significant of modern play revivals as a political and sociological phenomenon, demonstrating the power that these rituals and plays still hold.

>Recycling the Cycle is not only a look at how medieval and Renaissance cultural traditions developed and were maintained over centuries, but an insight into how those traditions can stay fresh and relevant, even today.

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Format PDF ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781442679085 ● Publisher University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Published 1998 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6570680 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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