Baird, Lorrayne Y. "'Cockes face' and the Problem of Poydrace in the Chester Passion" Comparative Drama 16, No. 3 (Fall 1982): 227-37.

Examines several possible interpretations of the medieval insults used in the Chester play depicting Christ's Passion.

Cardullo, Bert. "The Chester Sacrifice of Isaac." The Explicator 43, No. 3 (Spring 1985): 3-4.

Explains how the speeches of the Expositor in the Chester Sacrifice of Isaac play is necessary for a Medieval audience's complete comprehension.

Clopper, Lawrence M. "The Principle of Selection of the Chester Old Testament Plays." In The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook, edited by Kevin J. Harty, pp. 89-102. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993.

Examines the authorial selection of Old Testament subject matter in the Chester cycle.

Emmerson, Richard Kenneth. "'Nowe ys Common This Daye': Enoch and Elias, Antichrist, and the Structure of the Chester Cycle." In Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgement in Medieval Art and Drama, edited by David Bevington, pp. 89-120. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1985.

Examines the impact of the Coming of Antichrist play on the structure of the Chester Cycle by focusing on the serious—rather than farcical—aspects of the play.

Greg, W. W. "Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles." The Library 5, No. 17 (January 1914): 1-30, 168-205.

Essays transcribed from a series of four lectures given at Cambridge University in 1913 that describe the bibliographic and textual disparities among the extant manuscripts of the Chester Mystery Cycle.

Harty, Kevin J. "Adam's Dream and the First Three Chester Plays." Cahiers Elisabethains, No. 21 (April 1982): 1-11.

Discusses how interrelationships between the first three Chester plays demonstrate the playwright's dramatic skills, and also explains how "the inclusion of Adam's dream in Chester Play II is consistent with the principles of medieval historiography.

——. "The Unity and Structure of the Chester Mystery Cycle." Mediaevalia: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies2 (1976): 137-50.

Examines how the influence of monasticism contributed to the unity and structure of the Chester Mystery Cycle.

Kroll, Norma. "Cosmic Characters and Human Form: Dramatic Interaction and Conflict in the Chester Cycle 'Fall of Lucifer'." In Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, and Reviews, edited by J. Leeds Barroll, III, pp. 33-50. New York: AMS Press, 1985.

Discusses how the Chester author's use of bodily images in depicting Lucifer's rebellion serves as an integral part of the dramatic action, and distinguishes the play from other medieval Cycle portrayals.

Lumiansky, R. M. "Comedy and Theme in the Chester Harrowing of Hell." In The Chester Mystery Cycle, edited by Kevin J. Harty, pp. 162-70. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993.

In this 1960 essay, Lumiansky maintains that the comic scene in the Chester Harrowing of Hell "is a functional and effectively unified portion" of the play.

Lumiansky, R. M. and David Mills. In an introduction to The Chester Mystery Cycle, edited by R. M. Lumiansky and David Mills, pp. ix-xl. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

A thorough discussion of the extant manuscripts of the Chester Mystery Cycle.

McGavin, John. J. "Sign and Transition: The Purification Play in Chester." Leeds Studies in English XI (1980): 90-104.

Considers the issue of individual authorship and its effects on the structure of the Chester Purification play.'

Mills, David. "'In This Storye Consistethe our Chefe Faithe': The Problems of the Chester's Play(s) of the Passion." Leeds Studies in English XVI (1985): 326-36.

Examines the description of the Chester plays in the medieval Banns—the public announcement of the play's performance—and its possible influence on the development of the cycle.

Moore, E. Hamilton. English Miracle Plays and Moralities. London: AMS Press, 1907. Reprinted in New York, 1969, 199 p.

Examination of the history and influence of the English Mystery Plays on the modern theater.

Nelson, Alan H. "Chester." In The Medieval English Stage: Corpus Christi Pageants and Plays, pp. 154-69. The University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Describes the Chester Cycle's evolution from the Various Corpus Christi pageants and processions that took place in the city of Chester throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Ovitt, George. "Christian Eschatology and the Chester 'Judgement'." In Essays in Literature X, No. 1 (Spring 1983): 3-16.

Analyses the Chester Cycle's version of the Final Judgement, arguing that it "succeeds in uniting, and transcending, all of the elements, dramatic and didactic, contained in the other versions.

Salter, F. M. "The Banns of the Chester Plays." In The Review of English Studies XVI, No. 61 (January 1940): 1-17, 137-48.

Relates the performances and the textual revisions of the Chester plays to the Early Banns.

Stock, Lorraine Kochanske. "Comedy in the English Mystery Cycles: Three Comic Scenes in the Chester Shepherds' Play." In Versions of Medieval Comedy, edited by Paul G. Ruggiers, pp. 211-26. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977.

Closely examines the Chester Shepherds' Play.

Tricomi, Albert H. "Reenvisioning England's Medieval Cycle Comedy." In Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, and Reviews V, edited by Leeds Barroll, pp. 11-26. New York: AMS Press, 1991.

Examines the diversity and purpose of comic elements within the Chester cycle.

Wilson, Robert H. "The Stanzaic Life of Christ and the Chester Plays." Studies in Philology XXVIII, No. 3 (July 1931): 413-32.

Considers the extent to which the Middle English poem, the Stanzaic Life of Christ, is a non-dramatic source of the Chester plays.