Folk Play Links - Warwickshire, 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 *
Coventry Mummers
[perform Harborough Magna, Newbold on Avon, Bishop's Tachbrook, & Stoneleigh texts; photos; programme]
004 *
Shakespeare Morris Men
[perform Bidford-on-Avon, Broadway, Weston-sub-Edge & Snowshill texts; photos; programme]
005 *
Sword Play
[Script of
Coventry Mummers, by Ron Shuttleworth]
006 *
Wedding Play
[Script of
Coventry Mummers, by Ron Shuttleworth?]
007 *
Christmas Mummers at Rugby
[by W.H.D. Rouse, in
Folk-Lore, Vol.X No.2, Jun. 1899, pp.186-194 - Newbold on Avon text; Rugby text; 5 photos of Newbold on Avon mummers]
008 *
Country Contentments
[extract from Margaret Westerling, 1939, p.47 - Mummers at Bidford-on-Avon]
009 *
My Kingdom for a Horse!" [US edition]
[by William Allison, [1919 ?], (pp.45-46 - South Kilvington "plough stots" fragment;) p.46 - mummers at Rugby; (sword-dancers at South Kilvington)]
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