Folk Play Distribution Map: Please you all

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Key	Variant		Std.ID
Key	Earliest example of variant	Approx. Date	Std.ID
	*I can play the fool as well as them all*		*1412*
	I can play the fol for awhile as well as the best of them all	1779
	*I will do my best to please you all*		*1410*
	I will do my endeavour to please you all	1785-1789
	*I've brought my [musical instrument] to please you all*		*1416*
	And I've brought my fiddle to please you all	1780
	*I'll play a tune to please you all*		*1415*
	So I'll play ye a tune to plaze ye all	1851
	*I think myself best man amongst you all*		*1417*
	I call myself the best man among them all	1870

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Known composite scripts prepared by known authors have been omitted.
Chapbooks, broadsides, and other commercial texts have been omitted.

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Commentary

This map derives from a map published by Mike Preston (2002), and worked up using data from the Historical Database of Folk Play Scripts (Millington, 1994-2006).

Peter Millington

References

Peter Millington (1999-2018) Folk Play Research: Texts and Contexts
Internet URL: https://folkplay.info/resources/texts-and-contexts/introduction, 1999-2018, accessed 24th Jan.2021
Retitled in 2018 - formerly 'Historical Database of Folk Play Scripts'.

Peter Millington (2004-2021) Folk Play Scripts Explorer
Internet URL: http://www.mastermummers.org/scripts/, 2004-2021, accessed 24th Jan.2021

Michael Preston (2003) Reading Chapbooks Closely: Gleaning Evidence about their Composition, History, and Relationship to Oral Traditions
in: Folk Drama Studies Today: The International Traditional Drama Conference 2002, ed. by E.Cass & P.Millington
Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003, ISBN 0-9508152-3-3, pp.133-176 [PDF Download - 3.02MB]

This map was generated from the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.

Folk Play Distribution Map: Please you all

Commentary

References

© 2002, Peter Millington. (Webmaster: peter.millington@mastermummers.org). Last updated: 24-Jan-2021