Author: Reginald John Elliott Tiddy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk-drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Mummers' Play
Author: Reginald John Elliott Tiddy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk-drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk-drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Make Merry in Step and Song
Author: Bronwen Forbes
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 073871500X
Category : Folk dancing, English
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"See the blazing Yule before us..." This is just one of the many ancient British folk songs we all know and love. Other tunes and symbols that tug on our memories have similar historical roots, hearkening back to a shared Pagan past. These dances, songs, and theatrical plays in the English folk tradition are now little known to most of the modern Pagan community. Reviving these vital traditions can bring new life to Renaissance festivals, neopagan rituals, and community events. Introducing the lively music and homegrown entertainments of times long past, this descriptive how-to is designed for twenty-first-century joviality. The songs, dances, and plays of old are explained in their mythical, seasonal, and historical significance and outlined for easy reenactment. Simple-to-follow instructions detail six dances including the popular Abbots Bromley Horn dance, six full scripts for dramatic performances of Mummer's Plays (folk plays of death and rebirth), and over thirty songs with lyrics and music. Kick up your heels, hold high your skirts, and make merry the year through.
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 073871500X
Category : Folk dancing, English
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"See the blazing Yule before us..." This is just one of the many ancient British folk songs we all know and love. Other tunes and symbols that tug on our memories have similar historical roots, hearkening back to a shared Pagan past. These dances, songs, and theatrical plays in the English folk tradition are now little known to most of the modern Pagan community. Reviving these vital traditions can bring new life to Renaissance festivals, neopagan rituals, and community events. Introducing the lively music and homegrown entertainments of times long past, this descriptive how-to is designed for twenty-first-century joviality. The songs, dances, and plays of old are explained in their mythical, seasonal, and historical significance and outlined for easy reenactment. Simple-to-follow instructions detail six dances including the popular Abbots Bromley Horn dance, six full scripts for dramatic performances of Mummer's Plays (folk plays of death and rebirth), and over thirty songs with lyrics and music. Kick up your heels, hold high your skirts, and make merry the year through.
The English Mummers and Their Plays
Author: Alan Brody
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512814814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512814814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Mummers' Plays Revisited
Author: Peter Harrop
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367727734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers' plays, which have long been regarded as a form of 'folk' or 'traditional' drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre. This fresh view of folk and tradition explores how mummers' plays emerged in an 18th century theatrical environment of popular spouting clubs and private theatricals, yet quickly transformed into 'traditionary' drama with echoes of an ancient past. Harrop suggests that by the late 19th century the plays had been appropriated by antiquarians and folklorists, leaving mummer's plays as a strangely separate and categorised form. This book considers how that happened, and the ways in which these late 19th century ideas were absorbed into the mummers' plays, providing a new lease of life for them in the 20th and 21st centuries. Ideal for anyone with a specialised interest in this unique form, Mummers' Plays Revisited spans recent work in theatre history, performance studies and folklore to offer a comprehensive and engaging study.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367727734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers' plays, which have long been regarded as a form of 'folk' or 'traditional' drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre. This fresh view of folk and tradition explores how mummers' plays emerged in an 18th century theatrical environment of popular spouting clubs and private theatricals, yet quickly transformed into 'traditionary' drama with echoes of an ancient past. Harrop suggests that by the late 19th century the plays had been appropriated by antiquarians and folklorists, leaving mummer's plays as a strangely separate and categorised form. This book considers how that happened, and the ways in which these late 19th century ideas were absorbed into the mummers' plays, providing a new lease of life for them in the 20th and 21st centuries. Ideal for anyone with a specialised interest in this unique form, Mummers' Plays Revisited spans recent work in theatre history, performance studies and folklore to offer a comprehensive and engaging study.
The English Mummers and Their Plays
Author: Alan Brody
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710070678
Category : Folk-drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710070678
Category : Folk-drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The English Mummers' Play
Author: Alex Helm
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer for the Folklore Society ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer for the Folklore Society ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The English Mumming Play
Author: Eddie Cass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fold drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fold drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
All Silver and No Brass
Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812211399
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"A beautifully written exploration of a vanishing holiday ritual that can be traced back to the dramas of the sixteenth century and beyond." --Philadelphia Inquirer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812211399
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"A beautifully written exploration of a vanishing holiday ritual that can be traced back to the dramas of the sixteenth century and beyond." --Philadelphia Inquirer
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance
Author: Peter Harrop
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000401596
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000401596
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.
Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids
Author: Sara Hannant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858945590
Category : Brauchtum
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title provides an album of over 50 folk rituals performed across England, from Cornwall to Northumberland, throughout the year. More than 100 colour photographs accompanied by illuminating captions trace the history and significance of each ritual.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858945590
Category : Brauchtum
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title provides an album of over 50 folk rituals performed across England, from Cornwall to Northumberland, throughout the year. More than 100 colour photographs accompanied by illuminating captions trace the history and significance of each ritual.