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- In theatre: The Middle Ages in Europe
…the later mumming plays; the London Mumming circa 1427 was presented by an all-female cast, while in the Christmas Mumming at Hertford the young king Henry VI saw a performance consisting of “a disguysing of the rude upplandisshe people compleynynge on hir wyves, with the boystous aunswere of hir wyves.”
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