Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
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p.10 - Extract from the paper's general introduction:
"The first hint that there were any survivals of old folk drama in the Kentucky mountains came from Aunt Susan on Caney Creek. One day in the summer of 1925, when I went to her house to buy eggs, she complained that I had not been there for more than a week. My excuse that I had been busy making costumes for a play during the hours I was not teaching reminded her of her pap's talk about play acting which his pap had told him about. Aunt Susan said her grandpap always acted out 'The Turkish Knight,' and that her pap had learned the speech and, when she was a child, had taught it to her. She said the play had not been given within her or her pap's lifetime, and so she knew nothing of the play except grandpap's part. She said she had never known of any 'old time play acting being done whiles I recollect.' Some time later Aunt Susan let me copy her grandpap's speech."
Note 1: "R.J.E.Tiddy, The Mummers' Play, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1923, p.167."
Indexer's notes:As Caney Creek is the name of a watercourse, it is not possible to pin down a particular geographical location for this play. There was, however, a settlement called Caney Creek that was renamed Pippa Passes after a verse drama by Robert Browning. This is the location that is used here.
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