Question
This phrase is the best-known of the shouts used in processions on the first Monday after Epiphany, which provided the occasion for a style of folk drama in rural England. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this phrase that titles a 1798 comedy by Thomas Morton, whose prudish, unseen character Mrs. Grundy inspired the goddess Ydgrun in Samuel Butler’s novel Erewhon and the term “grundyism.”
ANSWER: “God speed the plough” [accept Speed the Plough]
[10m] Revelers seeking to “speed the plough” on Plough Monday put on a type of play named for this job, whose holder lures away the Farmer’s Man. Plume and Brazen have this title job in a George Farquhar play.
ANSWER: recruiting officers [or recruiting sergeants; accept The Recruiting Officer or Recruiting Sergeant Plays; prompt on officers, sergeants, or other synonyms of army or military personnel]
[10e] The “water-miller” cites tasks like plowing in an early Tudor “interlude” by John Heywood titled for this phenomenon. The Globe Theater simulated one type of this general phenomenon by rolling cannonballs in the “heavens.”
ANSWER: weather [accept synonyms of climate; accept more specific answers like rain or thunder; accept The Play of the Weather]
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Summary
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