The mediaeval stage, volume 1 (of 2)Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
History
The mediaeval stage, volume 1 (of 2)
Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
Drama, Medieval -- History and criticism; Theater -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
14. _Chiswick._ Oral. 2 _N. Q._ x. 466.
SUSSEX.
15. _Selmeston._ Oral. Parish, _Dict. of Sussex Dialect_ (2nd ed.
1875), 136.
16. _Hollington._ Oral. 5 _N. Q._ x. 489.
17. _Steyning._ Oral. _F. L. J._ ii. 1. (The ‘Tipteerers’’ play.)
HAMPSHIRE.
18. _St. Mary Bourne._ Oral. Stevens, _Hist. of St. Mary Bourne_,
340.
19. _Uncertain._ Oral. 2 _N. Q._ xii. 492.
DORSETSHIRE.
20. (A) _Uncertain._ Oral. _F. L. R._ iii. 92; Ashton, 129.
21. (B) _Uncertain._ Oral. _F. L. R._ iii. 102.
CORNWALL.
22. _Uncertain._ Oral. Sandys, _Christmastide_, 298. (Slightly
different version in Sandys, _Christmas Carols_, 174; Du Méril,
_La Com._ 428.)
WALES.
23. _Tenby._ Oral. Chambers, _Book of Days_, ii. 740, from _Tales
and Traditions of Tenby_.
IRELAND.
24. _Belfast._ Chap-book. 4 _N. Q._ x. 487. (‘The Christmas
Rhymes.’)
25. _Ballybrennan, Wexford._ Oral. Kennedy, _The Banks of the
Boro_, 226.
UNCERTAIN LOCALITY.
26. _Sharpe’s London Magazine_, i. 154. Oral.
27. _Archaeologist_, i. 176. Chap-book. H. Sleight, _A Christmas
Pageant Play or Mysterie of St. George, Alexander and the King
of Egypt_. (Said to be ‘compiled from and collated with several
curious ancient black-letter editions.’ I have never seen or
heard of a ‘black-letter’ edition, and I take it the improbable
title is Mr. Sleight’s own.)
28. Halliwell. Oral. _Popular Rhymes_, 231. (Said to be the best
of six versions.)
29. _F. L. J._ iv. 97. (Fragment, from ‘old MS.’)]
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