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The Truro cordwainers' play: a "new" eighteenth-century Christmas play - Research article: focus on traditional drama
Folklore, April, 2003 by Peter Millington
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Preston, Michael J., M. Georgina Smith and Paul S. Smith. Chapbooks and Traditional Drama: An Examination of Chapbooks Containing Traditional Play Texts: Part I: Alexander and the King of Egypt Chapbooks. Sheffield: Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, 1977.
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Biographical Note
Peter Millington is a founder member of the Traditional Drama Research Group, whose website he manages (www.folkplay.info). He gained his Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Sheffield on "The Origins and Development of English Traditional Drama." His long-standing interests include the folk plays and related customs of Nottinghamshire, and the use of computers as an aid for analysing traditional texts.
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