The Peace Egg Book: an Anglo-Irish chapbook connection discovered - Research article: focus on traditional drama

[17] The doctor figure on page six of The Peace Egg Book, for example, is repeated at the head of the song "The Quack Doctor" on a Harkness broadside, printer series 707 (Memorial University, Lubrano Collection, sheet M1739; Mitchell Library Glasgow, Frank Kidson Collection, 2 (M9518):127). Likewise, the image of the devil with his trident on page ten of The Peace Egg Book is subsequently used by Harkness on a broadside, "The Orton Ghost; or, the Devil Outwitted," printer series 602 (Harris Public Library n.d.).

[18] The various references to traditional plays in Ireland in the seventeenth century have possibly been informed by the so far unsubstantiated observation of Thomas Crofton Croker that a play of this type was "... minutely enough described in a manuscript account of the City, written in 1685 ..." (Croker 1826-54, chapter 9, f. 11). For a critique of Croker's observation, see Pettitt (1994) and Boyes et al. (1999, 8-9).

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