Folk Play Links - Gloucestershire, 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 * BBC West - Points West [Video of Fairford Mummers [no longer performing], 1977]
002 * BBC West - Points West [Video of Marshfield Mummers, 1967]
003 * Bisley Mummers [perform new texts; not Bisley text]
004 * British Movietone [Video of Marshfield Mummers, 26th Dec. 1966 - Story No.91939]
005 * Campden & District Historical and Archaeological Society : Archives [Ref. C3S2B73] [Photos of Chipping Campden Mummers, 1958]
006 * City of Gloucester Mummers (/ Gloucester Folk Club) [perform Gloucester text]
007 * Essex Folk News photo gallery [Photos of Marshfield Mummers]
008 * Field Trip-England [CD for sale: Audio of Marshfield Mummers, 195? - excerpt from FTX-104?]
009 * Folk Companions [photo]
010 * FolkyFotos.com [Photos of City of Gloucester Mummers]
011 * Forest of Dean Morris Men
012 * FTX-104 - Marshfield Paperboys [CD for sale: Audio of Marshfield Mummers, 1957 + 1943]
013 * Gloucestershire Morris Men [Dursley Morris Men [no longer performing] performed a text]
014 * Government Art Collection [Photo of Marshfield Mummers, 1977, by Homer Sykes]
015 * History Hunters - the Marshfield Paper Boys [From the British Channel 4 TV programme. - Archived]
016 * Lassington Oak Mummers / Lassington Oak Morris Men [perform Highnam text; photos; programme]
017 * Mum and Tuk
018 * Once a Year [by Homer Sykes, 1977, p. - Photos of Marshfield Mummers]
019 * Ragged and Old [perform Minchinhampton text]
020 * Stroud Morris Dancers
021 * Winterbourn Down Border Morrris [perform Winterbourne Down text; photos; programme; video]
022 * WyeNot.com [Photo of Forest of Dean Morris Men]

Publications

023 * A Cotswold Village [3rd edition] [by J.Arthur Gibbs, 1918, Chapter XVII - Ablington fragments]
024 * A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words used in the County of Gloucester [coll. & comp. by J. Drummond Robertson, ed. by Lord Moreton, 1890, p.99 - entry for 'Mumpers' [sic] - at Selsley]
025 * A History of Dancing [by Reginald St. Johnston, 1906, p.41 - Mummers at Leckhampton in 1888]
026 * A History of the County of Gloucester, Vol.11 [1976, pp 87-90 - 'Sapperton : Introduction' - citation of The Mummers' Play, by R.J.E. Tiddy, 1923]
027 * Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897 [Vol.II] [extract from Shaw, 1986, p.882 - at William Morris' Kelmscott Manor]
028 * C.J. Sharp Folk Dance Notes Vol 1 [Including Fool's lines from Chipping Campden, fol.93]
029 * Christmas Customs [by J.B. Cowburn, in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol.II, 1884, pp.568-569 - mummers at Tidenham]
030 * Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire [by J.S. Udal, in Folk-Lore Record, Vol.III Pt.I, 1880, pp.87-116 - (extract from A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, by W. Barnes, in Transactions of the Philological Society, 1864, p.71 - entry for 'Mummers'; citation of Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire, by J.S. Udal, in Notes & Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 26th Dec. 1874, p.505; [Symondsbury] text; south-west [Bridport ?] text; note by The Editor [?]: J.T. Micklethwaite possessed Walker Peace Egg chapbook for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection;) Dumbleton text for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection; (at Minety; at Acomb; citation of Banks of the Boro: A Chronicle of the County of Wexford, by Patrick Kennedy, 1867, pp.226-232)]
031 * Drama in Gloucestershire [extract from Theodore Hannam-Clark, 1928, pp.147-150 - Quedgeley text]
032 * Ethnographic discrepancies in the aesthetic of the Marshfield Paper Boys' voice disguise [Book for sale: by Simon Lichman, in From Sign to Text : A Semiotic View of Communication, ed. by Yishai Tobin, 1989, pp.393-402]
033 * Images of Thornbury [image archive] [Photo of Thornbury Mummers, old n.d.]
034 * Marshfield Mummers: The Old Time Paper Boys [Book for sale: by Mike Pearson, in Contemporary Theatres in Europe. A Critical Companion, ed. by Joe Kelleher & Nicholas Ridout, 2006]
035 * Music in London 1890-94 [Reprinted Standard edition] [by Bernard Shaw, 1949, pp.218-219 - at [William Morris' Kelmscott Manor] in 1892 - extract from The World, 4th Jan. 1893 - see above]
036 * Peter Kennedy Collection [extract with South Cerney text]
037 * Poems of English Country Life [ed. by Hereford B. George & W.H. Hadow, 1902, p.94 - at [South Cerney] - see below]
038 * Songs, Stories, and a Mummers' Play from Gloucestershire [extract from Michael David Kean Price, [1972], pp.11-13 - reconstructed Hardwicke text]
039 * The Christmas Boys' [by R. B-r [?], in Notes & Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.VII No.159, 12th Jan. 1907, p.32 - at Newland]
040 * The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration [by J. Payne Collier, 1831, Vol.I 'Annals of the Stage' p.17fn]
041 * The Oxford Treasury of English Literature, Vol.II: Growth of the Drama [by G.E. Hadow & W.H. Hadow, 1907, pp.iv, 9, 287-294 - South Cerney text]
042 * Transactions, at the Summer Meeting held at Dursley, August, 1886 : Notes on Dursley and the Neighbourhood [by F. Madan, in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol.XI, 1887, p.204 - at Dursley]

[General]

043 * Craig Fees
044 * Kids Ark [Winchcombe text]
045 * Marshfield Bakery [Mummers biscuits for sale]
046 * The Geneaology of the Cotswolds & Surrounds of England [Chedworth text from James Madison Carpenter Collection]
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