These Names Live: Play-Pageant for the Quartercentenary of the Crypt School, Gloucester 1539-1939

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Performances

Place: Guildhall (Gloucester) (Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England)

Year: 1939

Indoors/outdoors: Indoors

Number of performances: 2

Notes

18–19 May 1939

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Performed by Crypt School Dramatic Society

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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)

  • Hook, W.H.
  • Read, C.P.
  • Williams, D.G.

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Linked occasion

Quatercentenary of the Crypt School

Audience information

  • Grandstand: No
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Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest

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Pageant outline

Act I. The Home of John and Joan Cooke, 1528

Act II.

Scene 1. The Crypt Schoolroom, 1539
Scene 2. Yard of the New Inn, 1558
Scene 3. The Crypt Schoolroom, 1645 and Whitehall Place, 1652
Scene 4. The Crypt Schoolroom, 1739

Act III. The Adams’ Home. Tomorrow.

Key historical figures mentioned

  • Cooke, John (d. 1528) mercer and benefactor
  • Cooke, Joan (d. 1544/5)

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Newspaper coverage of pageant

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Book of words

These Names Live: Play-Pageant for the Quartercentenary of the Crypt School, Gloucester 1539-1939. [Gloucester], 1939.

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Archival holdings connected to pageant

  • Copy of Book of Words in the British Library

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Summary

This is an example of a small indoor pageant (a ‘Play-Pageant’) of the interwar period. It was held to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Crypt School by local benefactors John and Joan Cooke.

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘These Names Live: Play-Pageant for the Quartercentenary of the Crypt School, Gloucester 1539-1939’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1512/