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− | A '''mummer''' is an actor and entertainer. A mummer is usually part of a | + | A '''mummer''' is an actor and entertainer in [[Westeros]] and the [[Free Cities]]. A mummer is usually part of a troupe of fellow actors who travel from place to place or perform at a playhouse. They entertain at various feasts and functions performing plays{{ref|AFFC|34}} and shows.{{ref|AGOT|32}} Because mummers' performances are often comical, a bungled, unbelievable, or manufactured event can be referred to as a mummer's farce.{{ref|AGOT|26}}{{ref|ACOK|31}}{{ref|ASOS|77}}{{ref|ADWD|29}} |
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+ | A master mummer is in charge of each troupe,{{ref|ADWD|14}} which often have a [[dwarf]]<ref name=Mercy>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Mercy (The Winds of Winter)|Mercy]]</ref> or a dancing bear.{{ref|ADWD| 47}} Some mummers own [[monkey]]s.{{ref|AFFC|33}} | ||
− | Mummers | + | Mummers can be accomplished at manipulating their face,{{ref|AFFC|22}} while others wear masks.{{ref|AFFC|25}} Many performers shave their head, the so-called mummer's cut, to allow wigs to fit better.{{ref|ADWD|45}} Some mummers hide within a hollow horse and tumble from it for the amusement of patrons.{{ref|ACOK|44}} A mummer's dragon is a cloth [[dragon]] on poles which heroes fight during performances.{{ref|ACOK|63}} |
− | + | During peacetime, gaily painted mummer's boats with quilted sails of half a hundred colors make their way up the forks of the [[Trident]], visiting villages and castles.{{Ref|aSoS|2}} The [[Mummer's Ford]] is a crossing of the [[Red Fork]].{{ref|AGOT|43}} There is a mummers hall in [[White Harbor]] where bawdy entertainments can be had for a few pennies.{{ref|ADWD|15}} | |
− | + | Mummers in [[Braavos]] perform written stories instead of making up farces.{{ref|AFFC|15}} Braavosi playhouses include the [[Blue Lantern]] and the [[Ship (playhouse)|Ship]].{{ref|AFFC|34}} Mummers perform during the elections for [[triarchs of Volantis]].{{ref|ADWD|27}} | |
− | + | ==History== | |
+ | Ser [[Humfrey the Mummer]], a [[hedge knight]], was among the first [[Kingsguard]] of [[Aegon I Targaryen]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon I}} Queen [[Rhaenys Targaryen]] and her son, King [[Aenys I Targaryen]], sponsored many mummers.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I}} | ||
− | + | Mummers and singers heralded the birth of King [[Viserys I Targaryen]]'s children.{{ref|TRP}} During the [[Dance of the Dragons]], some mummers offered to attempt to tame [[dragon]]s on [[Dragonstone (island)|Dragonstone]].{{ref|TPATQ}} | |
− | + | Prince [[Aegon IV Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]] "wed" [[Megette]] with the aid of a mummer who portrayed a septon.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}} He also fathered [[bastard]]s on mummer's maidens.{{ref|TSS}} | |
− | When | + | [[Varys]] claims to have been born a slave in [[Lys]] that was sold and apprenticed to a traveling folly, a troupe of mummers who worked the [[Free Cities]], [[Oldtown]], and occasionally [[King's Landing]], by means of a fat little cog owned by the troupe's master.{{Ref|aCoK|44}} |
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+ | The [[tourney at Harrenhal]] included a mummer show.{{ref|ASOS|42}} | ||
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+ | Lady [[Ellyn Reyne]] sponsored mummers when she held court at [[Casterly Rock]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons}} Mummers that featured [[dwarf]]s in their troupes learned to stay away from [[Lannisport]] and the Rock, because Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] dislikes his dwarf son, [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]].{{Ref|ADWD|33}} | ||
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+ | Before coming to the [[Wall]], [[Pypar]] traveled the [[Seven Kingdoms]] with a mummers' troupe. He can imitate a hundred different voices and loves to act.{{ref|agot|26}} The [[Brave Companions]], a sellsword company, are pejoratively called the Bloody Mummers.{{ref|ACOK|30}} Archmaester [[Marwyn]] is said to consort with mummers and others with questionable reputations.{{ref|AFFC|Prologue}} | ||
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+ | [[Hop-Bean]] was a famous dwarf mummer who bought his freedom.{{ref|ADWD|33}} His children, [[Oppo]] and [[Penny]], became accomplished at jousting while on animals.{{ref|ADWD|40}} [[Izembaro]] calls himself the King of the Mummers.<ref name=Mercy/> | ||
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+ | ==Recent Events== | ||
+ | ===''A Game of Thrones''=== | ||
+ | Lord [[Eddard Stark]] sees a mummer on stilts along the [[Street of Steel]] in [[King's Landing]].{{ref|AGOT|27}} A dozen troupes come to the capital for the [[Hand's tourney]].{{ref|AGOT|32}} [[Arya Stark]] listens to two unidentified men—actually [[Varys]] and [[Illyrio Mopatis]]—conspiring in the [[Red Keep]], but Eddard thinks they are mummers.{{ref|AGOT|32}} | ||
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+ | ===''A Clash of Kings''=== | ||
+ | A mummer is among four agents, disguised as [[House Lannister guards]], sent by [[Tyrion Lannister]] to free Ser [[Jaime Lannister]] at [[Riverrun]].{{ref|ACOK|25}} The mummer impersonates Ser [[Edmure Tully]]'s voice, but they are eventually caught and hanged by [[House Tully guards]].{{ref|ACOK|39}} | ||
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+ | Within the [[House of the Undying]], [[Daenerys Targaryen]] has a vision of a mummer's dragon on poles among a cheering crowd.{{ref|ACOK|48}} | ||
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+ | ===''A Storm of Swords''=== | ||
+ | Mummers are hired to perform at the [[Purple Wedding|royal wedding]] of King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]].{{ref|ASOS|59}} | ||
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+ | ===''A Feast for Crows''=== | ||
+ | Mummers perform at Margaery's court.{{ref|AFFC|28}} | ||
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+ | Arya, calling herself Cat of the Canals, befriends mummers in [[Braavos]].{{ref|AFFC|34}} Mummers are sometimes used to officiate "weddings" involving the [[Sailor's Wife]].{{ref|AFFC|34}} | ||
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+ | ===''A Dance with Dragons''=== | ||
+ | [[Quaithe]] warns Daenerys against a mummer's dragon.{{ref|ADWD|11}} | ||
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+ | While at [[Volon Therys]], [[Jon Connington]] notices a gaily painted mummers' barge next to the ''[[Shy Maid]]''.{{Ref|aDwD|24}} | ||
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+ | When [[Arya Stark]]'s eyes are taken at the [[House of Black and White]], the [[waif]] also shaves her head in a mummer's cut.{{ref|ADWD|45}} | ||
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+ | Tyrion, [[Penny]], and Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] are forced to become mummers when enslaved and added to [[Yezzan zo Qaggaz]]'s grotesquerie.{{ref|ADWD|47}} | ||
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+ | ==Quotes== | ||
+ | {{quote|[[Pyp]] had traveled the [[Seven Kingdoms]] with a mummers' troupe, and bragged that he could tell what you were and where you'd been born just from the sound of your voice.{{ref|AGOT|26}}|thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]}} | ||
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+ | {{quote|When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery.{{ref|AGOT|58}}|[[Varys]] to [[Eddard Stark]]}} | ||
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+ | {{quote|'''Varys''': Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.<br>'''Tyrion''': So power is a mummer's trick?<br>'''Varys''': A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill.{{ref|ACOK|8}}|[[Varys]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]]}} | ||
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+ | {{quote|I have taught my [[Margaery Tyrell|Margaery]] what comely is worth, I hope. Somewhat less than a mummer's fart.{{ref|ASOS|4}}|[[Olenna Tyrell]] to [[Sansa Stark]]}} | ||
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+ | {{quote|'''Tywin''': What is it you would have of me? Lands, castle, some office?<br>'''Tyrion''': A little bloody gratitude would make a nice start.<br>'''Tywin''': Mummers and [[monkey]]s require applause.{{ref|ASOS|4}}|[[Tywin Lannister]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]]}} | ||
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+ | {{quote|The mummers were a loud and lively lot, always quoting speeches at each other and drunk more oft than not.{{ref|ADWD|24}}|thoughts of [[Jon Connington]]}} | ||
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+ | {{quote|The [[north]] remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.{{ref|ADWD|29}}|[[Wyman Manderly]] to [[Davos Seaworth]]}} | ||
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+ | {{quote|Mummers change their faces with artifice, and sorcerers use [[glamor]]s, weaving light and shadow and desire to make illusions that trick the eye.{{ref|ADWD|64}}|the [[kindly man]] to [[Arya Stark]]}} | ||
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*''[[The Lord of the Woeful Countenance]]'' | *''[[The Lord of the Woeful Countenance]]'' | ||
*''[[Seven Drunken Oarsmen]]'' | *''[[Seven Drunken Oarsmen]]'' | ||
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+ | *''[[The Anguish of the Archon]]'' | ||
*''[[The Conqueror's Two Wives]]'' | *''[[The Conqueror's Two Wives]]'' | ||
*''[[The Merchant's Lusty Lady]]'' | *''[[The Merchant's Lusty Lady]]'' | ||
+ | *''[[The Merchant's Melancholy Daughter]]'' | ||
+ | *''[[The Bloody Hand]]''<ref name=Mercy/> | ||
+ | *''[[Wroth of the Dragonlords]]''<ref name=Mercy/> | ||
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+ | ==References== | ||
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+ | [[Category:Occupations]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:01, 21 October 2022
A mummer is an actor and entertainer in Westeros and the Free Cities. A mummer is usually part of a troupe of fellow actors who travel from place to place or perform at a playhouse. They entertain at various feasts and functions performing plays[1] and shows.[2] Because mummers' performances are often comical, a bungled, unbelievable, or manufactured event can be referred to as a mummer's farce.[3][4][5][6]
Contents
Traditions
A master mummer is in charge of each troupe,[7] which often have a dwarf[8] or a dancing bear.[9] Some mummers own monkeys.[10]
Mummers can be accomplished at manipulating their face,[11] while others wear masks.[12] Many performers shave their head, the so-called mummer's cut, to allow wigs to fit better.[13] Some mummers hide within a hollow horse and tumble from it for the amusement of patrons.[14] A mummer's dragon is a cloth dragon on poles which heroes fight during performances.[15]
During peacetime, gaily painted mummer's boats with quilted sails of half a hundred colors make their way up the forks of the Trident, visiting villages and castles.[16] The Mummer's Ford is a crossing of the Red Fork.[17] There is a mummers hall in White Harbor where bawdy entertainments can be had for a few pennies.[18]
Mummers in Braavos perform written stories instead of making up farces.[19] Braavosi playhouses include the Blue Lantern and the Ship.[1] Mummers perform during the elections for triarchs of Volantis.[20]
History
Ser Humfrey the Mummer, a hedge knight, was among the first Kingsguard of Aegon I Targaryen.[21] Queen Rhaenys Targaryen and her son, King Aenys I Targaryen, sponsored many mummers.[22]
Mummers and singers heralded the birth of King Viserys I Targaryen's children.[23] During the Dance of the Dragons, some mummers offered to attempt to tame dragons on Dragonstone.[24]
Prince Aegon Targaryen "wed" Megette with the aid of a mummer who portrayed a septon.[25] He also fathered bastards on mummer's maidens.[26]
Varys claims to have been born a slave in Lys that was sold and apprenticed to a traveling folly, a troupe of mummers who worked the Free Cities, Oldtown, and occasionally King's Landing, by means of a fat little cog owned by the troupe's master.[14]
The tourney at Harrenhal included a mummer show.[27]
Lady Ellyn Reyne sponsored mummers when she held court at Casterly Rock.[28] Mummers that featured dwarfs in their troupes learned to stay away from Lannisport and the Rock, because Lord Tywin Lannister dislikes his dwarf son, Tyrion.[29]
Before coming to the Wall, Pypar traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe. He can imitate a hundred different voices and loves to act.[3] The Brave Companions, a sellsword company, are pejoratively called the Bloody Mummers.[30] Archmaester Marwyn is said to consort with mummers and others with questionable reputations.[31]
Hop-Bean was a famous dwarf mummer who bought his freedom.[29] His children, Oppo and Penny, became accomplished at jousting while on animals.[32] Izembaro calls himself the King of the Mummers.[8]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Lord Eddard Stark sees a mummer on stilts along the Street of Steel in King's Landing.[33] A dozen troupes come to the capital for the Hand's tourney.[2] Arya Stark listens to two unidentified men—actually Varys and Illyrio Mopatis—conspiring in the Red Keep, but Eddard thinks they are mummers.[2]
A Clash of Kings
A mummer is among four agents, disguised as House Lannister guards, sent by Tyrion Lannister to free Ser Jaime Lannister at Riverrun.[34] The mummer impersonates Ser Edmure Tully's voice, but they are eventually caught and hanged by House Tully guards.[35]
Within the House of the Undying, Daenerys Targaryen has a vision of a mummer's dragon on poles among a cheering crowd.[36]
A Storm of Swords
Mummers are hired to perform at the royal wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.[37]
A Feast for Crows
Mummers perform at Margaery's court.[38]
Arya, calling herself Cat of the Canals, befriends mummers in Braavos.[1] Mummers are sometimes used to officiate "weddings" involving the Sailor's Wife.[1]
A Dance with Dragons
Quaithe warns Daenerys against a mummer's dragon.[39]
While at Volon Therys, Jon Connington notices a gaily painted mummers' barge next to the Shy Maid.[40]
When Arya Stark's eyes are taken at the House of Black and White, the waif also shaves her head in a mummer's cut.[13]
Tyrion, Penny, and Ser Jorah Mormont are forced to become mummers when enslaved and added to Yezzan zo Qaggaz's grotesquerie.[41]
Quotes
Pyp had traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe, and bragged that he could tell what you were and where you'd been born just from the sound of your voice.[3]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery.[42]
—Varys to Eddard Stark
Varys: Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.
Tyrion: So power is a mummer's trick?
Varys: A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill.[43]—Varys and Tyrion Lannister
The mummers were a loud and lively lot, always quoting speeches at each other and drunk more oft than not.[40]
—thoughts of Jon Connington
Mummers change their faces with artifice, and sorcerers use glamors, weaving light and shadow and desire to make illusions that trick the eye.[45]
—the kindly man to Arya Stark
Plays
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 32, Arya III.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31, Catelyn III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 77, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 The Winds of Winter, Mercy
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 47, Tyrion X.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 33, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 22, Arya II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 25, Brienne V.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 45, The Blind Girl.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 44, Tyrion X.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 63, Daenerys V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 43, Eddard XI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 15, Davos II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 15, Samwell II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 27, Tyrion VII.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I.
- ↑ The Rogue Prince.
- ↑ The Princess and the Queen.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV.
- ↑ The Sworn Sword.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 42, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 33, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 30, Arya VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Prologue.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 40, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 27, Eddard VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 25, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 48, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 59, Sansa IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 11, Daenerys II.
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 24, The Lost Lord.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 47, Tyrion X.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 58, Eddard XV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 8, Tyrion II.
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 4, Tyrion I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 64, The Ugly Little Girl.