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lukerik's review
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Excellent notes and glossary. I don’t think I was every stuck on an English word or just didn’t understand, but there was the answer. What more can we ask for? However, I’m going to complain anyway. The cycle is not the most accessible of texts and the stage directions are in Latin. Not a language I am familiar with yet a Latin glossary is nowhere to be seen. There is a two page preface in which the editors whinge about the lack of space and an eight page glossary of Latin errors. I’m sure this last has made Geoff from Hounslow very happy, but for the rest of us… It’s a real shame. It get the impression from the tone of the preface that the editors have spat their dummies out.
They mention in the preface that many of the things they wanted to include have been published in ‘The Chester Mystery Cycle: Essays and Documents’. This book is worth looking at. There’s lots that will be useful to a casual reader like me and technical stuff that would be useful to someone who was staging the plays.
They mention in the preface that many of the things they wanted to include have been published in ‘The Chester Mystery Cycle: Essays and Documents’. This book is worth looking at. There’s lots that will be useful to a casual reader like me and technical stuff that would be useful to someone who was staging the plays.
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