Cycle of biblical plays historically performed in Chester, England
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The Chester Mystery Plays is a cycle of mystery plays originating in the city of Chester, England and dating back to at least the early part of the 15th century.[1]
^Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA). "The Chester Mystery Plays".
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six-line stanzas to tell it. Other shorter cycles omit it, and the ChesterMysteryPlays take 70 lines to cover it. The biblical episode generated two late...
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establishment. The Chester Midsummer Watch Parade, begun in 1498, was held at every Summer Solstice in years when the ChesterMysteryPlays were not performed...
the ChesterMysteryPlays in the 1970s and the York and Towneley Plays as part of the Edinburgh Festival in 1977. The development of the Passion Play was...
carrying torches and wearing costumes during years when the famous ChesterMysteryPlays were not performed. (A similar practise was performed every midwinter...
these for their audiences in return for money and hospitality. Mysteryplays and miracle plays (sometimes distinguished as two different forms, although the...
of the York MysteryPlays in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, the ChesterMysteryPlays in the 1970s and the York and Towneley Plays as part of...
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among the scenes in the English mysteryplays in more than one cycle of dramatic vignettes. In the ChesterMysteryPlays' portrayal of Christ's Passion...
(November 28, 1976) Solti Conducts Mendelssohn (December 15, 1976) ChesterMysteryPlays (December 22, 1976) Secret Service by William Gillette, from the...
reference to ChesterMysteryPlays. 1433: Famine led to food shortages in Chester. July 1438: Serious fire in Nantwich. 1444: Henry VI visits Chester. 1445:...
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hospitality. Mysteryplays and miracle plays are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mysteryplays focused on the...