Recycling the Cycle : : The City of Chester and Its Whitsun Plays / / David Mills.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mills, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Early English Drama
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Play Manuscripts --; 1. Approaches to Early Drama --; 2. Time and Space in Tudor Chester --; 3. Writing the Record --; 4. A Spectrum of Ceremonial and Entertainment --; 5. The Midsummer Celebrations --; 6. Religious Feasts and Festivals --; 7. Professionalism, Commercialism, and Self-Advertisement --; 8. The Past in the Present: The Text of the Whitsun Plays --; 9. Manuscripts, Scribes, and Owners --; 10 .Medievalism and Revival --; Postscript --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442679085; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442679085
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Mills.

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.