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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 7 : Miscellaneous Papers and Notes, Mummers Plays and American Songs
Packet 1 : Miscellaneous Papers and Notes
Folder 153 : Miscellaneous Papers and Notes - A
This item is part of: Page 10562 : incipit: MS of play [note] R. M. Nance (contributor), Padstow, Cornwall
Page 10565- 10582 : The Padstow Version of the St George's or Mummer's Play [play text] Mr W. Brabyn (contributor), Capt. W. Magor (secondary source), Nat England (secondary source), Wadebridge, Padstow

Item Summary

Page 10565- 10582 : The Padstow Version of the St George's or Mummer's Play [play text] Mr W. Brabyn (contributor), Capt. W. Magor (secondary source), Nat England (secondary source), Wadebridge, Padstow

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

play - hero-combat play

First line:

Ladies and Gentlemen, we now come in

Character List

Father Christmas
King of Egypt
St George
Turkish Knight
Prince Valentine
Doctor
John Bull
Bloody Warrior
Bloody Liar
Napoleon Buonaparte
Tom Bowling
Father Neptune
Dragon

Dramatis Personae

Nat England
Frank Nance

Pages are double spreads from a notebook. Text apparently reconstructed from memory. Name of Mrs Oldham written in margin on p. 10571; similarly name of Hannah Clemow[?] on p. 10573; these may have been actors. Additional text at end from Thomas Hardy's version, and various notes on the text and songs. Also name of W. E. Nance as a source of information about the Dragon.

10 pages

Intellectual Items

first line: Here am I, Sailor Boy [song text] Tom Bowling (character), Padstow

Tom Bowling [song text], Padstow

Old Mrs Nipper Nopper [song text], Padstow

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