Author : Alan Brody
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1512814814
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.
Author : Alan Brody
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Folk-drama, English
ISBN : 9780710070678
Author : Reginald John Elliott Tiddy
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Folk-drama, English
ISBN :
Author : Bronwen Forbes
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Folk dancing, English
ISBN : 073871500X
"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.
Author : Peter Harrop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780367727734
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.
Author : Eddie Cass
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fold drama, English
ISBN :
Author : Sara Hannant
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Brauchtum
ISBN : 9781858945590
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.
Author : Glynne Wickham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136288902
This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.
Author : Robert Wyndham Nicholls
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617036110
A study of the carnival traditions that created "whole theater" folk pageants
Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405119675
This pioneering collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has now been updated to include more early material, plus Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens. Second edition of this pioneering collection of works of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. Covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and Court masques. Contains material useful for courses on women playwrights or women in Renaissance drama, including Middleton’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling. Includes plays and pageants not anthologised elsewhere, such as the coronation entries of Elizabeth I and Queen Anne, and Thomas Heywood’s ‘A Woman Killed with Kindness’. For the second edition more early material has been added, such as Noah and The Second Shepherd’s Play. The anthology now also includes Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony, John Marston’s The Malcontent and Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens.
