No eyewitness accounts survive of the performances in the manuscripts in the exhibition, but in 1602 Richard Carew recorded: “they raise an earthen Amphitheatre, in some open field…The Country people flock from all sides…to heare & see it: for they have therein, devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the eare”
(Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, 1602)
Ny dreusvyw derivas vyth a dhustunier a berformyans a skrifedhow an diskedhyans mes yn 1602 y skrifas Richard Carew: “i a dhrehav gwariji a dhor yn neb park ygor… A bub tu y stev tus an pow… rag y glewes ha’y weles: awos bos ynna dyowlow ha devisyow rag didhana ha’n lagas ha’n skovarn”
(Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, 1602)
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