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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 3 : Mummers Plays
Folder 29 : Mummers Plays - A
Page 01922- 01931 : The Ploughboys [play text] William Matthews (contributor), Back St, Bassingham

Item Summary

Page 01922- 01931 : The Ploughboys [play text] William Matthews (contributor), Back St, Bassingham

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

play - plough play

First line:

In comes I as never been before

'Went first Monday in January, went every night for a week in surrounding villages.' Full representational costume details given.

Learned as a boy at Brant Broughton.

10 pages

Character List

Tom Fool
Recruiting Sergeant
Lady
Farmer's Man
Soldier
Dame Jane
Belzebub
Doctor

Intellectual Items

first line: Good people pay atttention [song text] A Player (character)

first line: In comes the Lady bright and gay [song text] Lady (character)

first line: Come all you lads that's a-bound for listing [song text] Recruiting Sergeant (character)

first line: Good master and good misteress [song text] All (character)

first line: Good master and good misteress [song text] All (character)

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