Folk Play Links - Northumberland, 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 * Byker Mummers [perform Longborough text and a newly composed Robin Hood script; photos; programme; scripts]
002 * Monkseaton Morrismen [perform Ampleforth text; photos; script]
003 * One Man Mummer [photos; script; video]

Publications

004 * Alexander and the King of Egypt [by J.H. D. [James Henry Dixon], in Local Historian's Table Book, 1846, Legendary Division Vol.III, pp.375-380 - Newcastle chapbook text; (chapbook just been published by P. Whittle of Preston)]
005 * Alexander, and the King of Egypt [Newcastle, T. Saint chapbook text - Subscription required for Gale: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]
006 * All the Year with Nature [by P.Anderson Graham, 1893, pp.201-211 - 'Northumbrian Guisards']
007 * Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library [1840, p.220 - entry for Alexander and the king of Egypt;, 1788]
008 * Dyce Collection : A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Rev Alexander Dyce [by South Kensington Museum, 1875, Vol.'Manuscripts. Printed Books, A to K', p.22 - entry for Alexander, and the King of Egypt, 1771]
009 * Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Northumberland [extract from Mrs. M.C. Balfour, 1904 - Besom Boys or Christmas Sweepers at Belford in 1890.]
010 * In the Troublesome Times: the Cambo Women's Institute book of 1922 [extract from Bosanquet, 1929 - The Guisers cum Sword dancers were seen in Cambo parish but they came from Kirkwhelpington parish i.e. at Dovecot NZ028846 but from Boghall NZ040780]
011 * Northumberland Words [by Richard Oliver Heslop, Vol.II, 1893-1894, p.349 - entry for 'Guizard, Guizart, Guizer'; (714 - entry for 'Sword-dancers'; I, 307 - entry for 'Full-plough')]
012 * Northumberland Words [extract from Richard Oliver Heslop, Vol.II, 1893-1894, p.349 - entry for 'Guizard, Guizart, Guizer']
013 * Observations on Popular Antiquities: [by John Brand, 1777, p.185 - about Newcastle, J. White chapbook text - Subscription required for Gale: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]
014 * Scott and the Newcastle Antiquaries [by [George Willis ?], in Willis's Current Notes, No.77, May 1857, p.35 - Letter of John Bell]
015 * The Arts in Berwick: [by Green, 2001 - Exhibition by the Civic Society at Main Guard, 2001]
016 * The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature [by William Thomas Lowndes, 1857, Vol.I p.28 - entry for Alexander and the King of Egypt, 1788 [- copy from John Brand to William Barnes Rhodes to Francis Douce?]]
017 * The Denham Tracts [ed. by Dr James Hardy, Vol.II, 1895, pp.214-215 - south Northumberland fragment; 215 - Wooler fragment; 347 - unlocated text]
018 * The History of the County Palatine and City of Cheshire; [by George Ormerod, 1819, Vol.I pp.lii-liii - (Sandbach text &) citation of copy owned by Francis Douce of Alexander and the king of Egypt;, 1788; ("Soulers" song; Old Hob)]
019 * The Letters of Sir Walter Scott 1811-1814 [ed. by Herbert Grierson, 1932, p.208 - about Newcastle, J. White chapbook text]
020 * The Sword Dances of Northern England [Vol.I] [extract from C.J. Sharp, 1911 - Earsdon text]
021 * Thomas Bell Collection [extract with 'Morris Dancers Song' text & play text]
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