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Introduction: The Chester Cycle In Context / David Klausner, Helen Ostovich And Jessica Dell -- Pt. 1. The Chester Script. The Text Of The Chester Plays In 1572: A Conjectural Re-construction / Alexandra F. Johnston -- In The Beginning! A New Look At Chester Play One, Lines 1-51 / David Mills -- Pt. 2. Faith And Doubt. Doubt And Religious Drama Across 16th-century England, Or Did The Middle Ages Belive In Their Plays? / Erin E. Kelly -- Dice At Chester's Passion / Matthew Sergi -- 'whye Ys Thy Cloathinge Nowe So Reedd?': Salvific Blood In The Chester Ascension / John T. Sebastian -- Affective Piety: A Method For Medieval Actors In The Chester Cycle / Margaret Rogerson -- Pt. 3. Elizabethan Religion(s). The Chester Cycle And Early Elizabethan Religion / Paul Whitfield White -- 'erazed In The Booke'?: Periodization And The Material Text Of The Chester Banns / Kurt A. Schreyer -- Pt. 4. Space And Place In Chester: When In Rome: Shifting Conceptions Of The Chester Cycle's Roman References In Pre- And Post-reformation England / Sheila Christie -- Exegesis In The City: The Chester Plays And Earlier Chester Writing / Mark Faulkner -- Maintaining The Realm: City, Commonwealth, And Crown In Chester's Midsummer Plays -- Heather S. Mitchell-buck -- Afterword: Origins And Continuities: F.m. Salter And The Chester Plays / Joanna Dutker. Edited By Jessica Dell, David Klausner And Helen Ostovich. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.