The Mummers' Play
Author : Reginald John Elliott Tiddy
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Folk-drama, English
ISBN :
Make Merry in Step and Song
Author : Bronwen Forbes
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Folk dancing, English
ISBN : 073871500X
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
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1512814814
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
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780367727734
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
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Folk-drama, English
ISBN : 9780710070678
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
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
The English Mumming Play
Author : Eddie Cass
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fold drama, English
ISBN :
Book Description
All Silver and No Brass
Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812211399
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 Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set
Author : Sian Echard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 2102 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118396987
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain vereint erstmals wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu Multilingualität und Interkulturalität im mittelalterlichen Britannien und bietet mehr als 600 fundierte Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Zusammenhängen und Einflüssen in der Literatur vom fünften bis sechzehnten Jahrhundert. - Einzigartiger multilingualer, interkultureller Ansatz und die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Das gesamte Mittelalter und die Bandbreite literarischer Sprachen werden abgedeckt. - Über 600 fundierte, verständliche Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Texten, kritischen Debatten, Methoden, kulturellen Zusammenhängen sowie verwandte Terminologie. - Repräsentiert die gesamte Literatur der Britischen Inseln, einschließlich Alt- und Mittelenglisch, das frühe Schottland, die Anglonormannen, Nordisch, Latein und Französisch in Britannien, die keltische Literatur in Wales, Irland, Schottland und Cornwall. - Beeindruckende chronologische Darstellung, von der Invasion der Sachsen bis zum 5. Jahrhundert und weiter bis zum Übergang zur frühen Moderne im 16. Jahrhundert. - Beleuchtet die Überbleibsel mittelalterlicher britischer Literatur, darunter auch Manuskripte und frühe Drucke, literarische Stätten und Zusammenhänge in puncto Herstellung, Leistung und Rezeption sowie erzählerische Transformation und intertextuelle Verbindungen in dieser Zeit.
The Jumbies' Playing Ground
Author : Robert Wyndham Nicholls
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496801180
Book Description
During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the world topsy-turvy. Modern carnivals, which evolved from earlier ritual celebrations featuring disguised performers, are important cultural andeconomic events throughout the Caribbean, a direct link to a multilayered history. This work explores the evolutionary connections in function, garb, and behavior between Afro-Creole masquerades and precursors from West Africa, the British Isles, and Western Europe. Robert Wyndham Nicholls utilizes a concept of play derived from Africa to describe a range of lighthearted and ritualistic activities. Along with Old World seeds, he studies the evolution of Afro- Creole prototypes that emerged in the Eastern Caribbean--bush masquerades, stilt dancers, animal disguises, she-males, female masquerades, and carnival clowns. Masquerades enact social, political, and spiritual roles within recurring festivals, initiations, wakes, skimmingtons, and weddings. The author explores performance in terms of abstraction in costume-disguise and the aesthetics of music, songs, drum rhythms, dance, and licentiousness. He reveals masquerades as transformative agent, ancestral endorser, behavior manager, informal educator, and luck conferrer.
