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Start by marking “A Mummer's Wife” as Want to Read: A Mummer's Wife tells the story of Kate Ede, a bored Midlands housewife unhappily married to an asthmatic draper. George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist.
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Lambourne stops the fight and is instructed by Varney to shadow Tressilian.
Forster and Varney negotiate, and in soliloquy Varney professes his intention to possess Amy or ruin her. Janet Forster warns her not to alienate Varney. He advises Amy not to tell Leicester about Tressilian's visit. He considers retiring from public life, but Varney dissuades him. Leicester speaks harshly of Tressilian, and Amy says nothing about his visit. The next morning Varney and Lambourne leave for Woodstock, preceded by Leicester who makes a public show of having spent the night there. He tells the landlord Giles Gosling of his affection for Amy, and of how she had left Devon with Varney prompting his journey to find her.
Giles advises him to return to Devon and make friends to further his interest at Court.
After they have left the smithy Dickie blows it up. They reach Marlborough, where news of the explosion has reached the inn. Wayland insists on serving Tressilian as he leaves for London on receipt of a summons from the Earl of Sussex who is ill. At Greenwich he justifies his action, and Elizabeth pays a brief and uneasy visit to the Earl, now convalescent. Elizabeth commands all of them to come to Kenilworth, Varney to bring Amy whom he claims to be his wife.
Elizabeth and Raleigh swap verses. Wayland tells Tressilian he has seen Dr Doboobie and is sent to Cumnor to keep an eye on things there.
Alasco Doboobie warns Leicester of the ,danger posed by a youth from the west. Varney arranges with Alasco for Amy to be drugged to keep her from going to Kenilworth and sends him with Lambourne to Cumnor. Advised by Giles, Wayland disguised as a pedlar sets off for Cumnor Place to take advantage of Forster's absence. Janet prevents her from drinking Alasco's potion brought by Forster, but Varney has more success, as he reports to Alasco. They take cover with Holiday's troupe of amateur entertainers bound for Kenilworth.
Amy asks Wayland to deliver a letter to Leicester, and Wayland resolves to tell Tressilian of her arrival. Lambourne expels Wayland from the castle with the help of the warder Laurence Staples. Varney works on Leicester, hinting at the advantages of murdering Amy. Staples rescues her from Lambourne's attentions, and she escapes into the Pleasance.
Leicester is arraigned as a result, but Varney saves the day by continuing to maintain that Amy is his wife, and that she is distracted. He confirms the Earl in his desire for Amy's death. Elizabeth and Dr Master agree that Amy should leave the castle to be cared for by Varney as her supposed husband. The Queen is entertained with a celebratory national masque. He meets Tressilian by appointment for a duel in the Pleasance, interrupted by a party of yeomen of the guard.
The resumed duel is interrupted by Flibbertigibbet, who presents Leicester with Amy's letter and tells how he acquired it.
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On the way they find Lambourne dying of a bullet wound. Varney shot Lambourne when he caught up with them. They arrange for Amy to fall to her death at Cumnor Place. Varney is arrested and kills himself. Forster flees, and his body is discovered in a concealed room long afterwards. Kenilworth was well received by most of the reviewers. The chapter depicting the afflictions of Sir Hugh Robsart was very generally found affecting, and the very different presentation of Lambourne was also judged striking.
Amy attracted a wide range of comments, the majority of them praising her moral stature. It was noted that the historical Leicester was partly sanitised by the transfer of some of his worst features to the villain Varney. Several reviewers praised the unusually dramatic qualities of the new novel, and there was much appreciation of the pervasive contrast of public splendour and private agony.
Yorkshire I was with my wife and children quietly passing the New Year's Eve of The quiet was broken by the maid coming to tell me that some young men at the back door wished me to see them. I had hardly entered the kitchen when a clown, dressed in a robe or cloak of dark crimson tatters, with a hood on his head of the same colour and having an appendage like a fox's tail, came in with a large broom, moving round as he swept, and singing in a monotone 'Room, room, brave gallants, room.
Here we resort to show some sport and pastime, gentlemen and ladies, in the Christmas time. This was at length broken by the clown, who had been mocking their movements, rushing into the ring, when the dancers encircled his neck with interlaced swords, and he fell down as one dead. To recover him a doctor was called for, and one, from his own description renowned in his profession, made his appearance. The remainder of the performance was that of the Christmas mummer's play ending with the usual box being taken round for pecuniary offerings.
I learned afterwards that these young men had been taught and trained by Christopher Reine, an old lead miner and the only surviving member of the old sword-dancers, during many previous months, and well their secret was kept until their visit came as a great surprise. One Henry Cholder acted as clown and was indeed the leading spirit of the revival.
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I asked Christopher Reine to come and spend an evening with me, and so was able to take down from his violin playing the melody of the verses sung and of the traditional dance tune as played on this occasion. I knew it as the familiar melody of "Nancy Dawson". II, and still sung in children's games as "The Mulberry Bush". On asking Christopher why the dancers did not move to "Th' Auld Wife of Coverdill" the reply was that they did not care for it, preferring the more lively "Nancy Dawson". Wishing to have the traditional tune I further asked him whether he could remember it and play it.
He said "Yes. I can, and at once began to play it. So I rescued the tune from being lost at his death. There are moments where Moore analyses the type of person Kate has become. He writes:. It was, however, half in fun, and Kate burst out laughing soon after; but Dick, unobservant as he was, could not help looking at her in astonishment. The change that had come over her since she left Hanley was apparent. Physically the change was for the better… Psychologically the change was even more marked.
The broad, simple lines on which her view of life and things had formerly been based, had become twisted, broken, and confused… The middle-class woman, in a word, had disappeared. He essentially uses her as a case study of women who commit adultery, get a divorce, and lose their morals. By becoming a woman of the world, by earning her own money through stage work and by being part of the new institution of divorce, Moore shows Kate to be exhibiting behaviours unsuited to that of the typical Victorian woman.
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Not only that, but he also takes away her rationality. He develops Kate into an alcohol-dependent and violent woman who lashes out at her new lover presumably through the guilt of her own actions. Dick Lennox is shown to be carefree, but now in this relationship, he walks on eggshells for fear of an argument or violence.
On several occasions, Moore depicts the violent nature of his female protagonist, showing her to be irrational.
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One night, after drinking, she blames Dick for her situation, claiming that he lured her away from her husband. When he tries to hold her and reason with her, she lashes out. As the novel progresses further, Kate starts to blame him completely for the life she now leads. Sinking lower into the depths of alcoholism, she loses all of her previous traits and simply becomes a monster. Gone is the woman who cared for her first husband; gone is the woman who whimsically dreamed of adventures whilst reading her stories.
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She attacks him later in the story, hitting him across the face and back with a stick, teeth clenched and foaming at the mouth like a wild animal, simply because he broke her bottle of alcohol. He manages to subdue her, but always within reason. He never treats her with the same violence with which she treats him, and Moore acknowledges that:.
He might easily have felled her to the ground with one stroke, but he contented himself with merely warding off the blows she aimed at him. When Kate has calmed down, she is always apologetic to Dick, and seems to forget everything she has done, even asking him at one point after a rage if she was violent to him.