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Pace Egg play
Résumé
The Pace Egg plays are an Easter custom in rural Northern England in the tradition of the medieval mystery plays. The practice was once common throughout Northern England, but largely died out in the nineteenth century before being revived in some areas of Lancashire and West Yorkshire in the twentieth century. The plays, which involved mock combat, were performed by Pace Eggers, who sometimes received gifts of decorated eggs from villagers. Several closely related folk songs were associated with Pace Egging.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the forms pace egg (first attested in 1579), paste egg (first attested in 1611), pasch egg (first attested in 1677), and paschal egg (first attested in 1844). The first word of the first three of these names (which on its own is usually spelled pasch) seems to come into English partly from Anglo-Norman pasche (attested to mean both 'Easter' and 'Passover'), whose standard modern French equivalents are pâques 'Easter' and pasque 'Passover'. Anglo-Norman pasche comes in turn from post-classical Latin pascha 'Passover, Passover lamb, Passover meal, Easter', which itself was an earlier source of the English word pasch. Latin pascha comes from Hellenistic Greek πάσχα 'Passover, Passover lamb, Passover meal, Easter', which comes from Aramaic pisḥā 'Passover fesival, Passover sacrifice, Passover meal', which comes from Hebrew pesaḥ 'Passover', itself deriving from the Hebrew verb pāsaḥ 'to pass or spring over'.
The drama takes the form of mock combat between the hero and villain, in which the hero is killed and brought back to life, often by a quack doctor. In some plays the figure of St George smites all challengers, and the fool, Toss Pot, rejoices. In other versions, the antagonist is a Turkish knight. Other characters are called the Noble Youth, the Lady Gay, the Soldier Brave.
The bands of performers, called Pace Eggers, were locals who performed in their surrounding villages. They often blacked their faces (as was common in English folk traditions such as Border Morris) and wore animal skins, ribbons or coloured paper, masks, and sometimes wooden swords.
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