Salmon-Fishing and Beer-Brewing: The Waterleaders and Drawers of Dee and Chester's Corpus Christi and Whitsun Plays

• Autores: Ernst Gerhardt
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 41, 2020, págs. 134-165
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Noah’s Flood, the third pageant in the Chester Whitsun Plays, is attributed by both the Early and Late Banns to the Waterleaders and Drawers of Dee. The Early Banns instruct the two companies to ‘loke that noyes shippe be sett on hie | that you lett not the storye | And then shall you well cheue’.¹ This advice is echoed, albeit in revised form, in the Late Banns, which instruct ‘The good simple Waterleaders & drawers of Dee | [to] See that in all poyntes your Arke be prepared | of Noe and his Chilldren the whole storie