This book will serve as an invaluable research tool for students and scholars with an interest in art relating to early drama, as well as those whose interests lie more in local art history, specifically that of Chester. Though it may not contain the bumper-crop of surviving subject-art as a city such as York possesses, Chester nevertheless holds much of value and interest, as the list in this book aptly demonstrates. Richly illustrated and carefully arranged, this book is a tremendous catalog of surviving subject-art and will reward any scholar who pulls it from the bookshelf.
Sally-Beth MacLean is the Director of Research and General Editor of REED and professor emerita of Medieval and Renaissance Theatre History at the University of Toronto.
AcknowledgementsIntroductionList of AbbreviationsOld TestamentParents of Virgin and Her Life (to Nativity)Infancy of ChristChrist's MinistryThe PassionThe Risen ChristConclusion of the Life of the VirginChrist in Majesty and TrinityThe ApostlesSaintsMiscellaneousAppendix I: Cult and Shrine of St. WerburghAppendix II: Musical Instruments in Surviving Chester ArtAppendix III: List of Chester Catedral MisericordsSelected BibliographyIndex