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.

001 - A Guise-Dance Play, St Keverne [citation of R.M.N. Nance, in Old Cornwall, Vol.1 No.1, Apr. 1925, pp.31-32]New
002 - A Redruth Christmas Play [citation of R.M.N. Nance, in Old Cornwall, Vol.1 No.1, Apr. 1925, pp.29-31]New
003 - Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern; [by William Sandys, 1833, pp.civ-cxi; 174-178]New
004 - Christmas Drama of St. George [by W.S. [William Sandys], in Gentleman's Magazine; & Historical Chronicle, Vol.100 Pt.1:Jun (New Ser Vol.23), Jan.-Jun. 1830, pp.505-506]New
005 - Christmas in Cornwall [by W.S. L.-S., in The Western Antiquary, Vol.1, ?, p.145 - Mummers at Pensilva - (Yule-tide in Cornwall, 1883 repeats four of the seven queries)]
006 - Christmas Mummers [index to ?, in The Western Antiquary, Vol.2, pp.154, 191]
007 - Christmas Mummers [index to ?, in The Western Antiquary, Vol.3, pp.169, 170]
008 - Cornwall and its People [by Jenkins, 1945 + Photo of St Gertrudes Convent School, Penzance, 1957]
009 - Flora Day [Helston: Hal-an-Tow - tradition with an element of mumming]
010 - From Stage to Folk: a Note on the Passages from Addison's Rosamond in the 'Truro' Mummers' Play [by Tom Pettitt, in Folklore, Vol.114 No.2, Aug. 2003]
011 - Half a Century of Penzance (1825–1875) - from notes by J.S. Courtney [by Louise Courtney, 1878, Part 4 - Guise-dancing at Christmas and the play of "St. George and the Dragon" now prohibited by the authorities.]
012 - Mummers [index to ?, in The Western Antiquary, Vol.3, p.192]
013 - Newlyn Christmas Plays [citation of J. Kelynack, in Old Cornwall, Vol.5 No.4, Winter 1953, p.156]New
014 - Popular Romances of the West of England [3rd edition] [by Robert Hunt, 1904]
015 - Popular Romances of the West of England [3rd edition] [by Robert Hunt, 1904]
016 - The Christmas Play of St George [index to P.F.S. A., in The Western Antiquary, Vol.3 No.9, Dec. 1883, pp.168-169]
017 - The History of Cornwall, [comp. by Fortescue Hitchins & ed. by Samuel Drew, Vol.I, 1824, p.718 - "… they are rapidly on the decline."]New
018 - The History of Cornwall, [New edition] [by Rev R. Polwhele, 1816, Vol.? p.58]New
019 - The Mummers' Play in West Cornwall [citation of Tom Miners, in Old Cornwall, Vol.1 No.8, Oct. 1928, pp.4-16 - and at Stithians]New
020 - The Natural History of Cornwall [by Borlase, 1758, p.299 - Subscription required for Gale: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]
021 - The Truro Cordwainers' Play: a 'New' Eighteenth-Century Christmas Play [by Peter Millington, in Folklore, Vol.114 No.1, Apr. 2003]
022 - 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 W.S. L.-S., in The Western Antiquary, Vol.1, ?, p.145]
023 - Trigg Morris Men [photo]
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