Note 425 — Chapter XXII · GUILD PLAYS AND PARISH PLAYS (continued)

Richard Carew lays stress on the delight taken by the spectators in the devils of the Cornish plays. Collier, ii. 187, quotes a jest about the devil in a Suffolk stage-play from C. Mery Talys (†1533). In the Conversion of St. Paul of the Digby MS., a later hand has carefully inserted a devil scene. On the whole subject of the representation of devils in the plays, cf. Cushman, 16; Eckhardt, 53.