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.


Groups

001 * Coventry Mummers [perform Harborough Magna, Newbold on Avon, Bishop's Tachbrook, & Stoneleigh texts; photos; programme]
002 * Glorishears of Brummagem [programme]
003 * Plough or Wooing Play [Script of Coventry Mummers, by Ron Shuttleworth]
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?]

Publications

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)]
010 * Walter Walton Handy 1870-1951 "The Cotswold Shepherd" [transcription of BBC Radio, 25th Dec. 1934 - Mummers at Ilmington]
011 * Warwickshire Calendar Customs [index to C. Wharton, in Warwickshire History, Vol.I [sic] No.5, pp.2-11]
012 * Windows on Warwickshire [image archive] [Photo of Bishop's Tachbrook mummers, circa 1920]

[General]

013 * RootsWeb : Christmas Mumming at Salford Priors [Genealogical query from Keith Chandler about John Basket and Ross Hunt - two of James Madison Carpenter's informants]

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