Merry Mount

About the show

In a Puritan settlement, minister Wrestling Bradford becomes obsessed with Cavalier Lady Marigold while engaged to Plentiful Tewke. When the Puritans disrupt the Cavaliers’ May Day celebration and kill Marigold’s beloved Sir Gower Lackland, Bradford dreams of surrendering to the Devil and Marigold. He wakes with Plentiful beside him, but the village is attacked and destroyed. Bradford reveals his apostasy and carries Marigold into the flames as the surviving Puritans pray.