These Names Live: Play-Pageant for the Quartercentenary of the Crypt School, Gloucester 1539-1939
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Guildhall (Gloucester) (Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England)
Year: 1939
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 2
Notes
18–19 May 1939
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Notes
Performed by Crypt School Dramatic Society
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Hook, W.H.
- Read, C.P.
- Williams, D.G.
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
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Linked occasion
Quatercentenary of the Crypt School
Audience information
- Grandstand: No
- Grandstand capacity: n/a
- Total audience: n/a
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
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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)
Musical production
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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.
Other primary published materials
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References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Book of Words in the British Library
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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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/