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PR0BABLY not a few readers of NATURE have, while staying over Christmas at a country house, been asked into the hall during the evening of Christmas Eve to witness a strange and fantastic rural performance called the mummers' play, and probably, too, they have promptly dismissed the whole thing as an idle and unmeaning piece of country folly. They would have noted, perhaps, the rude dialogue, the characters of St. George, the Prince of Paradine, and the King of Egypt; and they would have concluded that the performance was a faint echo of some miracle play of the Middle Ages, when the Church adopted this means of teaching the people.
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GOMME, L. Christmas Mummers. Nature 57, 175–177 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057175a0
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