Gammer Gurton's Needle
Gammer Gurton's Needle is a comedy. The author is unknown.
Listed in Greyvenstein as Gammer Girton's Needle.
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The original text
Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward V's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1972: Presented by Edgewood College in a double bill with The Imperial Nightingale, directed by Hugh Thompson.
Sources
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gammer-Gurtons-Needle-New-Mermaids/dp/0713644974
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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