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| | | | Page 02557- 02560 : The Mummers [play text] William Giles (contributor), East Leach |
| | Item Summary | | | Reference Code | AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 02557- 02560 |
Scope and Content Notes | Genre | play - hero combat play |
| First line | Here comes Old Father Christmas |
| Carpenter compares parts of the text with a) Yorkshire chapbook lines given in E. K. Chambers, The English Folk-Play, 1933 and b) Gwen John, 'The Derbyshire Mumming Play of St George ...', Folk-Lore, Vol. XXXII, 1921. |
| Character List | Father Christmas
St George
Black Prince of Paradise
'Ecter
King of Egypt
Doctor
Belzebub
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Contextual Notes | 'Learned 60 years ago'. Original ms. at pp. 06341-06349. |
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