Folk Play Links - Sussex, 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 *
Andy Anderson
[2001 report, with photos, about
Stane Street Morris]
017 *
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect
[by Rev W.D. Parish [Vicar of Selmeston], 1875, p.122 - entry for 'Tip-teerers'; pp.136-137 - Selmeston text [variation of Tenby, Pembrokeshire text]]
019 *
Christmas Customs in Sussex
[by Frederick E. Sawyer, in
Notes and Queries, 6th Ser. Vol.VIII No.208, 22nd Dec. 1883, pp.483-484 - Sompting text; citation of
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, by Rev W.D. Parish, 1875, pp.136-137]
020 *
Christmas Mummers
[by William Holloway, in his
Scenes of Youth; or Rural Recollections; With Other Poems, 1803, pp.63-65]
027 *
Sussex "Tipteerers'" Play
[by Frederick E. Sawyer, in
Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.II No.1, Jan. 1884, pp.1-8 - citation of
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, by Rev W.D. Parish, 1875, p.122 - entry for 'Tip-teerers' / pp.136-137 - Selmeston text; Hastings fragment; at Hollington; Steyning text; Sompting fragment; Brighton fragment]
028 *
Sussex : Melancholy Circumstance
[in
Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle and General Advertiser for Hants, Sussex, Surrey, Dorset, Vol.22 No.1160, 31st Dec. 1821, p.4c - "Tip Teering" from Chichester seen at Westhampnett, Walberton & Goodwood - Subscription required for Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers]
029 *
Sussex Archaeology & Folklore
[Large compilation of texts of Sussex Tipteerers' plays with an extensive introduction to the county's plays]
035 *
The Seven Champions of Christendom
[by Frederick E. Sawyer, in
Notes and Queries, 6th Ser. Vol.VIII No.199, 20th Oct. 1883, p.309 - collected three texts - citation of
The Seven Champions of Christendome, by J. K. [John Kirke], 1638]
037 *
Tipteerer
[by A.O.V. P., in
Notes and Queries, 4th Ser. Vol.III No.58, 6th Feb. 1869, p.128 - "tipteerers" - citation of
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,;
Memoir of the Rev Henry Francis Cary, by Rev Henry Cary [his son], 1847, Vol.II p.22]
038 *
Tip-Teerers
[by Charles F.S. Warren, in
Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.I No.4, 24th Jan. 1874, p.68 - at Midhurst]
039 *
Cross and Country' Event
[School performance, including lengthy footnotes on photos of the Boxgrove mummers in the 1930s. - Archived]
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