The Home of the Cycle Plays: York, Chester, Coventry and Wakefield

Episode 54In this episode we look at the way the cycle plays developed in the four major centres from where we have complete versions of the cycle: York, Chester, Coventry and Wakefield.The development of the York PlaysFurther details on the guilds and how they functioned in societyThe development of the Chester playsThe development of the Coventry CycleThe development of the Wakefield cycleThe N-Town cycle ManuscriptThe Wakefield cycle playsThe literary merits of the playsFor the list of plays and associated guilds from York see: www.thehistoryofeuropeantheare.com/blogSupport the podcast here:www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.comwww.patreon.com/thoetpwww.ko-fi.com/thoetpThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.