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Happy St George’s Day and merry Shakespeare Day! Pictured: Roving players the Aldworth Mummers (who by convention remain anonymous) perform their traditional play outside the village pub The Bell around the midwinter solstice. Mummers plays are based loosely on the legend of St George and the dragon and show the struggle between good and evil, death and rebirth. We might be celebrating England’s Patron Saint today (April 23), but did you know he wasn’t English at all? In fact he was an early Christian martyr venerated as a warrior saint and was born in Cappadocia, which is in modern-day Turkey…

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