English folk plays (Mummers Plays) texts are mostly in rhyme, and they
may include songs
or even dances What I have found is that they tell jokes for adults
that children wont find funny and think is something different to what
it really is. The key character is the comical quack doctor, who is
brought in to
revive the loser of, say, the sword fight between a hero and an
adversary.
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