²⁶ Ibid. 226.

²⁷ In an important article, Emmerson outlines the varying receptions that the play might have enjoyed, from the early Tudor period, when the traditional Catholic view of Antichrist predominated, to the Henrician era, when views of the Catholic Church as Antichrist became more widespread, to the Elizabethan settlement and the state-sanctioned flourishing of Protestant eschatology. Richard K. Emmerson, ‘Contextualizing Performance: The Reception of the Chester Antichrist’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29 (1999), 89–119.

²⁸ David Mills, Recycling the Cycle: The City of Chester and its Whitsun Plays, SEED 4 (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1998). Mills provides a penetrating account of the Chester plays from their origins to the present day, which is illuminated by his intimate knowledge of the city, of the civic documents related to the drama, and of the cycle manuscripts.

²⁹ See Elizabeth Baldwin, Lawrence M. Clopper, and David Mills, eds, Cheshire Including Chester, REED (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2007), 339.