The Truro cordwainers' play: a "new" 18th century Christmas play

Millington, Peter

Abstract

The Christmas play hitherto attributed to Mylor has been re-ascribed to Truro in the late 1780s, using biographical information concerning the actors, and physical characteristics of the manuscript. It becomes the oldest Saint George play to feature Father Christmas and the Turkish Knight, and has textual parallels with Irish folk plays.

Citation

Millington, P. (2003). The Truro cordwainers' play: a "new" 18th century Christmas play. Folklore, 114(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587032000059870

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2003
• Deposit Date: Jul 29, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 29, 2014
• Journal: Folklore
• Print ISSN: 0015-587X
• Electronic ISSN: 0015-587X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587032000059870
• Keywords: Truro, Cornwall, Mylor, christmas play, folk drama, folk play, manuscript, Father Christmas, Turkish Knight, Ireland, Enys
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1022040
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0015587032000059870
• Related Public URLs: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30035067
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Folklore on 02/12/2010, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0015587032000059870