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Abstract
If, as Peter Travis has argued, Expositors were incorporated in the Chester cycle in the early sixteenth century, what model did the reviser draw upon to construct them? I argue that the reviser could not have found a suitable template in cycle dramaturgy; rather, in bringing presenters into the Chester cycle, the reviser has adopted a technique hitherto found, in English drama, only in non-cycle plays - an innovation which is part of a wider pattern of rethinking cycle plays in the sixteenth century.
Author Biography
Michelle M. Butler is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in medieval and sixteenth-century drama. She is currently working on a book about the transition between audience address and soliloquy in the sixteenth century. Her most recent publication, about John Bale's Prolocutor, appeared in Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, 1485-1590: New Directions for Research, Criticism, and Pedagogy.
Recommended Citation
Butler, Michelle M..
'The Borrowed Expositor'.
Early Theatre
9.2 (2006): 73-90 (paper). Article 5.
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