Cutting from Geographical Magazine, September 1942
Dancing round the maypole was a common May Day custom in Shakespeare’s time, to be supressed thirty years after his death by the Puritan Revolution. Though restored in Charles II’s reign, the Maypole festivity never recovered the communal gaiety of the medieval and Tudor observances.
Item Features
| Object Number | H-221121-13 |
| Number of objects | 1 |
| Date of discovery | 1/9/1942 |
| Significance to the collection | Low |
| Width | 142 mm |
| Height | 182 mm |
| Maker | Geographical Magazine |
| Significance to the Collection | Low |
| See also: | News cutting |