Folk Play Links - England, General
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.
002 *
City Waites
[A professional folk music group, with a mumming play repertoire item entitled 'Welcome my Lord Sire Christemas!']
006 *
Steeleye
[Chronology of Mummers' plays performed by
Steeleye Span]
010 *
A Select Collection of Old Plays
[by [ed. R. Dodsley], Vol.I, 1744, p.x - Summarised or paraphrased in:
The British Theatre, by [Chetwood], 1750, p.iii;
The Companion to the Play-House:, by [Baker], Vol.I, 1764, p.ix;
Þorða Anzel-Cynnan:, by Strutt, Vol.II, 1774-1776, p.94. (Four letters are in Anglo-Saxon script. Gale uses the incorrect
English Short Title Catalogue title. The correct title is
Þorða Angel-Cynnan:. The correct transliteration of the title is
Horda Angel-Cynnan:)]
011 *
Christmas Carols: Waits: Guisers
[by J.Holden MacMichael, in
Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.III No.54, 7th Jan. 1905, p.10 - citation of Brand, 1853;
Osborne Magazine, some few years ago]
015 *
Christmas in the Streets
[by Jack Easel [Charles Locke Eastlake], in
London Society, Vol.VI, 1864, Christmas No. p.76]
016 *
Christmas Mummers
[citation of A. Hunt, in
Illustrated London News, Vol.XXXIX No.1123 [Christmas Supplement], 21st Dec. 1861, pp.636, 639 - engraving]
017 *
Christmas Mummers
[by Gomme, in
Nature, Vol.57 No.1469, 23rd Dec. 1897, pp.175-177 - Subscription required]
019 *
Christmas Mumming Play
[by Prof Joseph C. Bridge, in
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2nd Ser. Vol.XXIV, 29th Feb. 1912, pp.121-122]
022 *
Gossip of an Antiquary
[by The Editor [P.H. Ditchfield], in
Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, Vol.5 No.1, Apr. 1899, p.2]
023 *
Gossip of an Antiquary
[by The Editor [P.H. Ditchfield], in
Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, Vol.8 No.4, Jan. 1903, pp.97-98]
024 *
Gray's 'Elegy' and Ploughing Customs
[by H.P. L., in
Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.XII No.307, 13th Nov. 1909, p.389 - characterful horses being named Doctor arose from the mummers]
027 *
Mummers
[by E.H. Binney, in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.IX No.221, 22nd Mar. 1902, p.237 - citations of 2nd Ser. Vol.X, p.464; 2nd Ser. Vol.XII, pp.487, 493; 4th Ser. Vol.X, p.487; 5th Ser. Vol.II, p.505; 5th Ser. Vol.IV, p.511; 5th Ser. Vol.X, pp.484, 489;
Folk-Lore Record, 1881;
Folk-Lore Journal, 1884; Burne; 9th Ser. Vol.VII, p.322]
028 *
Mummers
[by H. W., in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.IX No.214, 1st Feb. 1902, p.87 - citations of 2nd Ser. Vol.X, p.466; 2nd Ser. Vol.XI, p.271; Brand; Gomme]
029 *
Notes to Shakespeare : Vol.I : Comedies
[by Samuel Johnson, ed. by Sherbo, 1956 - "Vice was the fool of the old moralities. Some traces of this character are still preserved in puppet-shows, and by country mummers."]
030 *
Pease Eggers"
[by Killigrew [?], in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.III No.70, 29th Apr. 1899, p.334 - citation of
Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.V [sic] p.96; citation of
The Peace Egg, by Ewing]
033 *
Short Notes and Correspondence
[by P.H. Ditchfield, in
The Antiquary:, Vol.XXXI No.?, Jan. 1895, p.96 - collecting [for his
Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time, 1896]]
034 *
Sketch for a History of English Wit
[by A.B.C. [pseud], in
The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, Vol.II, Jul. 1808, p.453 - "toiling through musty folios, tracing the old English mummers in their progresses," - Subscription required for Gale: The Making of the Modern World]
036 *
St George Mumming Play
[by F.Gordon Brown, in
Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.I No.17, 22nd Apr. 1916, p.327]
037 *
St George or Mummers¡¯ Plays
[by Gordon Crosse, in
Notes and Queries, 11th Ser. Vol.VII No.165, 22nd Feb. 1913, p.150 - photographs or drawings [for his
The Religious Drama, 1913] - see below]
039 *
The Day Before Yesterday
[by Richard Middleton, 1912, p.73 - 'Carol Singers' - "five years back we saw them ourselves and were satisfield that they had learnt their rather obscure rhymes from their fathers before them, and not from any well-meaning society for faking old customs." - mummers at ?]
043 *
The Mummers
[citation of Richard Eurich, in
Illustrated London News, Christmas 1952 - illustration]
053 *
Waits and Mummers
[by Este [Samuel Timmins], in
Notes and Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.I No.3, 16th Jan. 1886, p.54 - citation of
Birmingham Weekly Post]
054 *
Waits and Mummers
[by J.S. Udal, in
Notes and Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.I No.9, 27th Feb. 1886, p.177 - citation of
Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire, by J.S. Udal, in
Folk-Lore Record, Vol.III Pt.I, 1880, pp.87-116]
055 *
Waits and Mummers
[by W.F. Prideaux, in
Notes and Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.I No.21, 22nd May 1886, p.415 - citation of
Ancient Poems Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, ed. by Robert Bell, 1857, pp.175-180; 180-183]
056 *
Winter Festivities
[in
Saturday Night, Vol.I No.XXI, 1824, p.328 - when the Mummers have perished "then shall I most seriously tremble, and most truly deem Doomsday to be near." - extract from
New European Magazine]
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.
057 *
Green Branch
[List with 1976 Summer; 1978 New Year; 1978 Summer; 1984 New Year; 1986 Summer performances]
058 *
On Some Lost Papers
[by H., in
Gentleman's Magazine, New Ser. Vol.I, Jun.-Nov. 1868 [Sep], pp.540-541]
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