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.

001 - A Cotswold Village [3rd edition] [by J.Arthur Gibbs, 1918, Chapter XVII - Ablington fragments]
002 - A History of Dancing [by Reginald St. Johnston, 1906, p.41 - Mummers at Leckhampton in 1888]
003 - A History of the County of Gloucester, Vol.11 [1976, pp 87-90 - 'Sapperton : Introduction' - citation of Tiddy]New
004 - Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897 [Vol.II] [extract from Shaw, 1986, p.882 - Mummers at William Morris' Kelmscott Manor]
005 - Bisley Mummers [perform new texts; not Bisley text]
006 - British Movietone [Video of Marshfield Mummers, 26th Dec. 1966 - Story No.91939]
007 - C.J. Sharp Folk Dance Notes Vol 1 [Including Fool's lines from Chipping Campden, fol.93]
008 - City of Gloucester Mummers (/ Gloucester Folk Club) [perform Gloucester text]
009 - Drama in Gloucestershire [extract from Theodore Hannam-Clark, 1928, pp.147-150 - Quedgeley text]
010 - 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]
011 - Field Trip-England [CD for sale: Audio of Marshfield Mummers, 195? - excerpt from FTX-104?]New
012 - Folk Companions [photo]
013 - FolkyFotos.com [Photos of City of Gloucester Mummers]
014 - Forest of Dean Morris Men
015 - FTX-104 - Marshfield Paperboys [CD for sale: Audio of Marshfield Mummers, 1957 + 1943]
016 - Government Art Collection [Photo of Marshfield Mummers, 1977, by Homer Sykes]
017 - History Hunters - the Marshfield Paper Boys [From the British Channel 4 TV programme.]
018 - Images of Thornbury [image archive] [Photo of Thornbury Mummers, old n.d.]
019 - Kids Ark [Winchcombe text]
020 - Lassington Oak Mummers / Lassington Oak Morris Men [perform Highnam text; photos; programme]
021 - 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]New
022 - Mum and Tuk
023 - Peter Kennedy Collection [extract with South Cerney text]
024 - Ragged and Old [perform Minchinhampton text]
025 - Songs, Stories and a Mummers' Play from Gloucestershire [extract from Price, 1972 - Hardwicke text?]
026 - Stroud Morris Dancers
027 - The Geneaology of the Cotswolds & Surrounds of England [Chedworth text from James Madison Carpenter Collection]
028 - Winterbourn Down Border Morrris [perform Winterbourne Down text; photos]
029 - WyeNot.com [Photo of Forest of Dean Morris Men]
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