N-Town Cycle | Kenneth Cameron and Stanley J. Kahrl (essay date 1967)
Kenneth Cameron and Stanley J. Kahrl (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "Staging the N-Town Cycle," in Theatre Notebook, Vol. XXI, Nos. 3 and 4, Spring and Summer, 1967, pp. 122-38, 152-65.
[In the following excerpt, Cameron and Kahrl explore the staging of plays in Lincoln, as well as internal evidence from the N-Town cycle, in order to argue for the use of both movable and stationary staging methods in the cycle.]
Much attention has been given to problems of doctrine, of supposed unity, and of geographical ascription in the N-Town Plays. Known also as the Ludus Coventriae or the Hegge MS. plays, this lengthy cycle has been frequently examined because of its great complexity and the many problems it poses. Its staging, however, has seldom been analyzed in any great detail, and except for two unpublished dissertations [by Anne C. Gay and Izola Curley Harrison], little attempt has been made to solve the cycle's intricate and often...
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