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; programme]
004 * British Movietone [Video of Marshfield Mummers, 26th Dec. 1966 - Story No.91939]
005 * City of Gloucester Mummers (/ Gloucester Folk Club) [perform Gloucester text; photos; programme]
006 * Essex Folk News photo gallery [Photos of Marshfield Mummers]
007 * FF-1113 - Gloucester's Barton Fayre [DVD for sale: Video of City of Gloucester Mummers, 2004]
008 * FF-1119 - The Celebrated Paperboys [DVD for sale: Video of Marshfield Mummers, 2004]
009 * Folk Companions [photo]
010 * FolkyFotos.com [Photos of City of Gloucester Mummers]
011 * Forest of Dean Morris Men
012 * FTX-104 - The Celebrated Marshfield Paperboys : Boxing Day Guisers [CD for sale: Audio of Marshfield Mummers, 1957 + 1943]
013 * FW-8871 : Field Trip-England [CD for sale: Audio of Marshfield Mummers, 195?]
014 * Gloucestershire Morris Men Mummers [Also Dursley Morris Men [no longer performing] performed a text]
015 * Government Art Collection [Photo of Marshfield Mummers, 1977, by Homer Sykes]
016 * History Hunters - the Marshfield Paper Boys [From the British Channel 4 TV programme. - Archived]
017 * Lassington Oak Mummers / Lassington Oak Morris Men [perform Highnam text; photos; programme]
018 * Mary Evans Picture Library [Photo of Marshfield Mummers, old n.d.]
019 * Mum and Tuk
020 * Once a Year [extract from Homer Sykes, 1977, pp.154-155 - Photos of Marshfield Mummers]
021 * Ragged and Old [perform Minchinhampton text]
022 * Stroud Morris Dancers
023 * Winterbourn Down Border Morrris [perform Winterbourne Down text; photos; programme; video]
024 * WyeNot.com [Photo of Forest of Dean Morris Men]

Libraries & Archives

025 * C.J. Sharp Folk Dance Notes Vol 1 [Including Fool's lines from Chipping Campden, fol.93]
026 * Campden & District Historical and Archaeological Society : Archives [Ref. C3S2B73] [Photos of Chipping Campden Mummers, 1958]
027 * Images of Thornbury [image archive] [Photo of Thornbury Mummers, old n.d.]
028 * Peter Kennedy Collection [South Cerney text]
029 * The Geneaology of the Cotswolds & Surrounds of England [Chedworth text from James Madison Carpenter Collection]
030 * The H.Hurlbutt Albino Folk Music Collection (1913-38) [citation of Elaine Bradtke, in Folk Music Journal, Vol.7 No.2, 1996, pp.207, 211, 213]

Publications

031 * A Cotswold Village [3rd edition] [by J.Arthur Gibbs, 1918, Chapter XVII - Ablington fragments]
032 * 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]
033 * A History of Dancing [by Reginald St. Johnston, 1906, p.41 - Mummers at Leckhampton in 1888]
034 * 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]
035 * Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897 [Vol.II] [extract from Shaw, 1986, p.882 - at Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott - see below]
036 * Christmas Customs [by J.B. Cowburn, in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol.II, 1884, pp.568-569 - mummers at Tidenham]
037 * 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 and 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)]
038 * Drama in Gloucestershire [extract from Theodore Hannam-Clark, 1928, pp.147-150 - Quedgeley text]
039 * 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]
040 * Let us be Merry [CD for sale: by Puzzlejug - Track 13 - Audio of Sherborne Mummers' Song]
041 * Marshfield Mummers : The Old Time Paper Boys [Book for sale: by Mike Pearson, in Contemporary Theatres in Europe : A Critical Companion, eds. by Joe Kelleher & Nicholas Ridout, 2006, pp.136-148]
042 * Music in London 1890-94 [Reprinted Standard edition] [by Bernard Shaw, 1949, pp.218-219 - at [Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott] - extract from The World, 4th Jan. 1893 - see above]
043 * Poems of English Country Life [eds. by Hereford B. George & W.H. Hadow, 1902, p.94 - at [South Cerney] - see below]
044 * Songs, Stories, and a Mummers' Play from Gloucestershire [extract from Michael David Kean Price, [1972], pp.11-13 - reconstructed Hardwicke text]
045 * The Christmas Boys' [by R. B-r [?], in Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.VII No.159, 12th Jan. 1907, p.32 - at Newland]
046 * 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]
047 * 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]
048 * 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]

049 * Craig Fees
050 * Kids Ark [Winchcombe text]
051 * Marshfield Bakery [Mummers biscuits for sale]

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