Wakefield festivals
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Festivals | |
|---|---|
| Locality | Wakefield |
| Vicinity | By River Calder |
| Coordinates | 53.683155, -1.505381 |
| Adm. div. | Yorkshire, W.R. |
| Began | 16th century? |
| Ended | 16th century? |
| Events | May Games witdh dancers and fiddlers; George a Greene |
Wakefield.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-18.
Richard Braithwaite in his Strappado for the Diuell mentions May games at Wakefield. Born in Kendall (Cumberland) and educated at Oxford, he may not have known much about Wakefield, and it is possible he invented these annual May games and dances "vpon Wakefield greene" as a punning allusion to George à Greene, the Pinder of Wakefield. On the other hand, he may have had first or second hand knowledge of such festival traditions in Wakefield.
Allusions
Lists and gazetteers
- Outside scope of Lancashire, Ian, compil. Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: a Chronological Topography to 1558 (Cambridge, 1984).
- Outside scope of Wiles, David. The Early Plays of Robin Hood (Cambridge, 1981), Appendix I.
Background
Notes
"th" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.