Folk Play Links - Cornwall / Kernow, England

Compiled by Chris Little



Groups listed may be folk club, morris dance or amateur drama groups, as well as traditional performers. Publications listed may be cited, extracted or summarised publications, as well as full text.


Groups

001 * Trigg Morris Men [photo]

Publications

002 * A Budget of Cornish Poems [n.d., pp.46-52 - 'Account of a Chrestmas Play' [- as Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse, by Various, 1867, pp.107-113]
003 * A Guide to Penzance and its Neighbourhood, [by J.S. Courtney, 1845, p.52]
004 * A Guise-Dance Play, St Keverne [index to R.M.N. Nance, in Old Cornwall, Vol.1 No.1, Apr. 1925, pp.31-32 - text]
005 * A Redruth Christmas Play [index to R.M.N. Nance, in Old Cornwall, Vol.1 No.1, Apr. 1925, pp.29-31 - text]
006 * Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham; [1855, Vol.I pp.25-27 - Christmas plays at Falmouth, in 1790s]
007 * Battle of St. George [by W. S. [William Sandys], in The Every-Day Book;, Vol.II, 18??, cols.122-126 - text]
008 * Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern; [by William Sandys, 1833, pp.civ-cxi; 174-178 - unlocated text]
009 * Christmas Drama of St. George [by W. S. [William Sandys], in Gentleman's Magazine; & Historical Chronicle, Vol.C Pt.1:Jun (New Ser Vol.23), Jan.-Jun. 1830, pp.505-506 - unlocated text]
010 * Christmas in Cornwall [index to Rev W.S. Lach-Szyrma, in Western Antiquary, Vol.I, No.3, Oct. - Dec. 1881, pp.145-146]
011 * Christmas in Cornwall [by Rev W.S. Lach-Szyrma, in Western Antiquary, Vol.I, No.3, Oct. - Dec. 1881, pp.145-146 - ("guise-dancing" at Penwith and Penzance;) "Saint George and the Turkish Knight" at [Pensilva]]
012 * Christmas Mummers [index to M.Y.Y. T., in Western Antiquary, Vol.2 No.9, Dec. 1882, p.154 - extract from Christmas Throughout Christendom, by O.M. Spencer, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol.46 No.272, Jan. 1873, pp.241-258]
013 * Christmas Mummers [index to Rev W.S. Lach-Szyrma, in Western Antiquary, Vol.2 No.11, Feb. 1883, p.191 - at Pensilva, 1866]
014 * Christmas Mummers [by Florence Grove, in Folk-Lore, Vol.10 No.3, Sep. 1899, pp.351-352 - at Mullion]
015 * Christmas Mummers [by William Pengelly, in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.III No.55, 16th Jan. 1875, p.55 - citation of A Budget of Cornish Poems, n.d.; "Christmas players" at [East Looe]]
016 * Christmas Pastimes in Exeter [index to G. Townsend, in Western Antiquary, Vol.3 No.9, Dec. 1883, pp.165-166 - citation of Christmas Mummers in the Olden Time, by J.W. P. [E.H. Corbould ?], in Illustrated London News, Vol.XLIX No.1405 [Christmas Supplement], 22nd Dec. 1866; Dec. 1850]
017 * Christmas Play of St George [index to Rev W.S. Lach-Szyrma, in Western Antiquary, Vol.3 No.10, Jan. 1884, p.198]
018 * Christmas Rimers in Ulster [by Ygrec [Thurstan Peter], in Notes and Queries, 11th Ser. Vol.VII No.177, 17th May 1913, p.394 - unlocated fragment; [Mylor [Truro]] fragment; possesses J. Harkness chapbook]
019 * Christmastide [sic] : its History, Festivities, and Carols [by William Sandys, [1852] - unlocated text]
020 * Cornish Carols [extract from coll. J.E. Thomas & T. Miners, in Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol.VIII No.33, 1929 - incorporates speeches of Little Man Jack and Beelzebub from Penponds fragment]
021 * Cornish Christmas Customs [by W.S. Lach-Szyrma, in Antiquary, Vol.IX No.?, Feb. 1884, p.94 - at Pensitoa [Pensilva]]
022 * Cornish Mumming [Book for sale: ed. by Kelvin Jones, 2010]
023 * Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse [later edition of Cornish Tales, in Verse and Prose] [by Various, 1867, pp.107-113 - 'A Christmas Play' [- extract from Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect,, coll. by Uncle Jan Treenoodle [William Sandys], 1846, pp.53-59]]
024 * Cornwall and its People [extract from Jenkins, 1945 + Photo of St Gertrudes Convent School, Penzance, 1957]
025 * Duffy and the Devil : An Old Christmas Play [by William Bottrell, from his Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall : Second Series, 1873, pp.1-2, 268]
026 * Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall [by M.A. Courtney [West] & Thomas Q. Couch [East], 1880, p.24 - 'West Cornwall' - entry for 'Giz' dance, Guise dance, Geese dancers' (/ p.86 - 'East Cornwall' - entry for Goosey-dance' - citation of The History of Polperro,, by the late Jonathan Couch, with ... many additions on the popular antiquities of the district by Thomas Q. Couch [his son], 1871, pp.161-162)]
027 * Half a Century of Penzance (1825–1875) - from notes by J.S. Courtney [by Louise Courtney [his daughter], 1878, Part 4 - (Guise-dancing at Christmas and) the play of "St. George and the Dragon" now prohibited by the authorities.]
028 * Hogmany [by J. S. Jun. [John Smith Jun], in The Every-Day Book;, Vol.II, 18??, cols.73-75 - ? text]
029 * Jenkyn, Little John, &c [by Ygrec [Thurstan Peter], in Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.V No.115, 10th Mar. 1906, p.195]
030 * Jenkyn, Little John, &c [by Ygrec [Thurstan Peter], in Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.V No.111, 10th Feb. 1906, p.109 - [Mylor [Truro]] fragment]
031 * Newlyn Christmas Plays [index to J. Kelynack, in Old Cornwall, Vol.5 No.4, Winter 1953, p.156]
032 * On the Cornish Drama [by William Sandys, in Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Vol.I No.III, Apr. 1865, p.2]
033 * Popular Romances of the West of England; - First Series [printing with Second Series] [coll. & ed. by Robert Hunt, 1865, p.37fn - 'Tom the Giant']
034 * Popular Romances of the West of England; - Second Series [coll. & ed. by Robert Hunt, 1865, pp.179-182 - '"St George"--The Christmas Plays' - extract from Hone]
035 * Recreations in Rhyme [by A Cornubian [John Trenhaile], 1834, pp.253-254 - 'Dolly Pentreath' - "Christmas Players" - Literary Work]
036 * Setting Cornwall on its Feet : Robert Morton Nance 1873-1959 [Book for sale: eds. by Peter W. Thomas & Derek R. Williams, 2007]
037 * Some Ancient Christmas Carols, [2nd edition] [coll. by Davies Gilbert, 1823 - unlocated fragment]
038 * Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect, [coll. by Uncle Jan Treenoodle [William Sandys], 1846, pp.53-59 - 'Account of a Chrestmas Play' - text]
039 * St George Mumming Play [by Thurstan Peter, in Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.I No.20, 13th May 1916, pp.390-393 - Mylor [Truro] text; possesses J. Harkness chapbook]
040 * The Christmas Boys' [by Ygrec [Thurstan Peter], in Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.VII No.161, 26th Jan. 1907, p.75 - [Mylor [Truro]] fragment; possesses J. Harkness chapbook]
041 * The Church Treasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, etc [ed. by William Andrews, 1898, p.24 - 'Curious Churches of Cornwall', by Rev W.S. Lach-Szyrma - at [Pensilva] - died out because of the Board Schools and Methodism]
042 * The Collegiate Church of St Thomas of Glasney [by Rev C.R. Sowell, in Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Vol.I No.III, Apr. 1865, p.25fn - at Penryn]
043 * The Contributors' Club [in Atlantic Monthly, Vol.55 No.328, Feb. 1885, pp.275-278 - ficticious? village near Redruth]
044 * The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village: Fasts and Festivals [by Thomas Q. Couch, in Notes and Queries:, [Ser.1] Vol.XII No.322, 29th Dec. 1855, p.507 - at place of his birth [Polperro] - as The History of Polperro,, by the late Jonathan Couch, with ... many additions on the popular antiquities of the district by Thomas Q. Couch [his son], 1871, pp.161-163 - 'Christmas']
045 * The History of Cornwall, [comp. by Fortescue Hitchins & ed. by Samuel Drew, Vol.I, 1824, p.718 - as ]
046 * The Mummers' Play in West Cornwall [index to Tom Miners, in Old Cornwall, Vol.1 No.8, Oct. 1928, pp.4-16 - Stithians text; Cadgwith, Connor Downs, Fraddon, Germoe, Manaccan, Penpont & St Martin fragments; at Penrose & Ruan Minor]
047 * The Natural History of Cornwall [by William Borlase [Rector of Ludgvan], 1758, p.299 - Subscription required for Gale: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]
048 * The Old Cornish Drama … (A Lecture) [by Thurstan C. Peter, 1906, pp.46-47 - fragments]
049 * The Truro Cordwainers' Play: a 'New' Eighteenth-Century Christmas Play [by Peter Millington, in Folklore, Vol.114 No.1, Apr. 2003]
050 * Transactions of the Loggerville Literary Society [by [Anon][William Sandys], 1867, p.167 - 'Dandyados : Notes' - extract from ]
051 * Yesterday and To-Day [by Cyrus Redding, 1863, Vol.I pp.92-93 - at Kenwyn?]
052 * Yule-Tide [index to Rev W.S. Lach-Szyrma, in Western Antiquary, Vol.3 No.9, Dec. 1883, pp.169-170 - 'Christmas Plays' at Pensilva; ('Christmas Mummers' [sic] guise dancers at Newlyn West)]

[General]

053 * Flora Day [Helston: Hal-an-Tow - tradition with an element of mumming]
054 * The Western Rising of 1549 Against the introduction of the New Order of Mass in England [Article 8 of the 1549 Prayer Book Rebels - c.f. Christmas in Cornwall, by Rev W.S. Lach-Szyrma, in Western Antiquary, Vol.I, No.3, Oct. - Dec. 1881, pp.145-146]

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