Week 1, Creation and Fall:
York (The Barkers) The Fall of the Angels (W); Chester (The Tanners), The Fall of Lucifer (W, H); York (The Coopers) The Fall of Man (W); Chester (The Drapers), Adam and Eve (W, H).
We will assume familiarity with York pageants 1-6 (up to the end of Expulsion from Eden)
From The Cambridge Companion to English Medieval Theatre (WUL):
Meg Twycross, ‘The Theatricality of Medieval English Plays’, pp. 26-74.
Richard Beadle, ‘The York Corpus Christi Play’, pp. 99-124.
David Mills, ‘The Chester Cycle’, pp. 125-51.
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