The old Cornish drama : with illustrations from ancient Cornish sacred poems and miracles plays of other lands : a lecture . eaven, 4d., which is certainly not extrava-gant. A few extracts from old accounts will givea fair idea of how the stage was decked and theplay presented. They are not Cornish instances,but probably by one you can judge the other : Payd to Fawston for mending the wind, iid. ; paid for a pair of gloves for God ; dyversnecessaries for the trymminge of the Father ofHeaven ; paid to the players for rehearsal . .; item, for keeping fyer at Hells mouth, iijd. This last item see
The old Cornish drama : with illustrations from ancient Cornish sacred poems and miracles plays of other lands : a lecture . eaven, 4d., which is certainly not extrava-gant. A few extracts from old accounts will givea fair idea of how the stage was decked and theplay presented. They are not Cornish instances,but probably by one you can judge the other : Payd to Fawston for mending the wind, iid. ; paid for a pair of gloves for God ; dyversnecessaries for the trymminge of the Father ofHeaven ; paid to the players for rehearsal . .; item, for keeping fyer at Hells mouth, iijd. This last item seems cheap, but the next ismore startling— 5d. for setting the world on suppose there was danger attaching to this,because for njaking of iij worlds only ijs. waspaid. In the same accounts we find Payd forthe baryll for the yerthquake and payd forstarch to make the storm.* One entry I fail tounderstand, but it is suggestive : Item, twoworms of conscience : payd for a cord for thewynd, ijd —apparently a mechanical contrivance. In one place we find a payment for halfe a* Clarke, Miracle Play in England, p. PLAN-AN-GUARE AT PERRAN.(From Borlases Natural History of Cornwall. [ To face t- 45- The Old Cornish Drama 45 yarde of Rede Sea, reminding us that the sceneswere painted, and bore the names of the placesin large letters. Amongst the many purposesconjectured for the trench that formerly crossedthe plan-an-guare at Perran is that it representedthe sea. In the play of Meriasek there must,I think, have been some such contrivance whenthe saint crossed to and from Brittany andCornwall. The costumes seem to have been at timesextraordinary. For one play, acted at Coventryabout 1591, and probably seen by Shakespeare,who perhaps refers to it when he speaks of out-Heroding Herod, that worthy is dressed tocorrespond to his bombastic speeches. Amongst the entries in the accounts we find—to a payntour for peyntyng . . Herodes face; peyd to a peynter for peyntyng and mendyng o
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