Just finished an article about Mummers, those medieval cosplay fans whose adherents are trying to keep the tradition alive today.
http://familychristmasonline.com/ceremo ... ummers.htm
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| Author: | paulrace [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 1:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Mummer Article and Links |
Just finished an article about Mummers, those medieval cosplay fans whose adherents are trying to keep the tradition alive today. http://familychristmasonline.com/ceremo ... ummers.htm
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| Author: | paulrace [ Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mummer Article and Links |
Ron Shuttleworth writes: Found your site interesting. Mine is http://www.folkplay.info/Ron/Index.htm Particularly under 'Mummers Reemerge' you quote a poem from 1738. Could you let me have full details - and perhaps a copy please. Ron Shuttleworth. Keeper of the Morris Ring Folk-Play Archive. 5,000+ items, available to anyone. -----------Our reply------------------- Ron, thanks for getting in touch. The original quote is from a footnote to the Mobiad. A digitized version is here: https://archive.org/stream/mobiadorbatt ... g_djvu.txt Sorry about the bad scans, such as Georgian S's being scanned as F's. (x) Engbmd*s Hir9e.'\ St. George for England. At Chriftmas are (or at leaft very lately were) Fellows wont to go about from Houfe to Houfe in Exeter it mumming ; one pf whom, in a (borrowed) Holland Shjrt, moft gorgeoufly be-ribbon'd, over hisWaiftcoat, (sfc. flourifliing a Faulchion, yery valiantly entertains the admiring Spectators thus : *' Oh ! here comes I Siidt George, a Man of Cout-d^c bold, •« And witk my Spfear I wiftn'd three Crowns of Gold, f' i (lew thfe Dragbn, and brought htm to the Slaughter ; ff And by that very meant I married Sa^raj the beauteous . tf I^ing oflEgyft'% jpa^ghtcr. — Play Mafick." is work: I may have first come across the quote in this work: https://books.google.com/books?id=_DkwA ... &q&f=false In either case, four lines of St. George's speech are all we are given. Millington's collection has several variants on that speech, though. A more carefully edited version is the appendix to a short story about a Peace Egg play published about 1884. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ ... peace.html Hope this helps. - Paul |
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