Browse the Collection

Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 3 : Mummers Plays
Folder 30 : Mummers Plays - B
Page 02040- 02049 : The Peace Egg [play text] Mr Wallace Patrick (contributor), Luddenden , Midgeley

Item Summary

Page 02040- 02049 : The Peace Egg [play text] Mr Wallace Patrick (contributor), Luddenden , Midgeley

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

Play - hero-combat - pace-egg play

First line:

A ring a ring I enter in

Costume details, tissue decorated hats with beads; jackets with rosettes; long trousers with braided seams. Some ms. emendations not in Carpenter's hand. Has references to The Halifax Courier 4 April 1931; F. H. Marsden, Mr Crump and Wm Henry Harwood.

10 pages

Character List

Fool
St George
Slasher
Doctor
Clown
Black Prince
King of Egypt
Hector
Tosspot

Intellectual Items

first line: O the next that steps in [song text] All (character)

first line: I've some eggs in my basket although I appear [song text] Tosspot (character)

first line: Come search up yer money [song text] All (character)

New Search