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Podcast: Beyond Shakespeare
Episode: Exploring: N-Town, Play 5 (Abraham and Isaac)
Description: Exploring: The N-Town Play, a slow burn look at a medieval Mystery (sort of) cycle. The N-Town Play comes to us as a single manuscript, but it's a compilation of various different sources - including elements from what looks like a cycle and various other large scale productions focusing on episodes from the Bible.
The journey continues with the happy story of listening to the voices in your head, it's Abraham and Isaac. We looked at this play twice in this session.
For an alternative look at this story, we have rather a lot...
There's Chester, which...