Dr James Wade of Cambridge University says the script offers the 'rarest glimpse of a medieval world rich in oral storytelling and popular entertainments'.
Academics have identified a rare 15th century manuscript as the text for a live comedy performance that includes a scene similar to Monty Python's Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
and said it gave the"rarest glimpse of a medieval world rich in oral storytelling and popular entertainments".One scene features fictional peasant Jack Wade, who could be from any medieval village, and reads:"Jack Wade was never so sad / As when the hare trod on his head / In case she would have ripped out his throat."Dr Wade believes that household cleric Richard Heege, who wrote the manuscript, copied out the text from a now-lost memory aid by an unknown minstrel.
At this time, the Wars of the Roses was still being fought and life was difficult for most people in England."These texts remind us that festive entertainment was flourishing at a time of growing social mobility," Dr Wade said.
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