Abstract
DURING the last thirty years, considerable attention has been given to the English folk-play. When in 1903 Sir Edmund Chambers attempted an account of the ‘mummer's play’ in his book “The Medieval Stage” only twenty-nine examples were available: in the present work he has drawn upon well over one hundred and there may be, he thinks, others which have eluded his search. This form of rustic entertainment had, in fact, almost died out, when it was revived as a result of antiquarian research.
The English Folk-Play.
By Sir E. K. Chambers. Pp. vii + 248 + 2 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1933.) 10s. net.
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The Folk-Play . Nature 134, 605–606 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134605a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134605a0
