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Author : Reginald John Elliott Tiddy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mummers' Play written by Reginald John Elliott Tiddy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bronwen Forbes
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 073871500X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Make Merry in Step and Song written by Bronwen Forbes and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "See the blazing Yule before us..." This is just one of the many ancient British folk songs we all know and love. Other tunes and symbols that tug on our memories have similar historical roots, hearkening back to a shared Pagan past. These dances, songs, and theatrical plays in the English folk tradition are now little known to most of the modern Pagan community. Reviving these vital traditions can bring new life to Renaissance festivals, neopagan rituals, and community events. Introducing the lively music and homegrown entertainments of times long past, this descriptive how-to is designed for twenty-first-century joviality. The songs, dances, and plays of old are explained in their mythical, seasonal, and historical significance and outlined for easy reenactment. Simple-to-follow instructions detail six dances including the popular Abbots Bromley Horn dance, six full scripts for dramatic performances of Mummer's Plays (folk plays of death and rebirth), and over thirty songs with lyrics and music. Kick up your heels, hold high your skirts, and make merry the year through.
Author : Peter Harrop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367727734
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Mummers' Plays Revisited written by Peter Harrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers' plays, which have long been regarded as a form of 'folk' or 'traditional' drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre. This fresh view of folk and tradition explores how mummers' plays emerged in an 18th century theatrical environment of popular spouting clubs and private theatricals, yet quickly transformed into 'traditionary' drama with echoes of an ancient past. Harrop suggests that by the late 19th century the plays had been appropriated by antiquarians and folklorists, leaving mummer's plays as a strangely separate and categorised form. This book considers how that happened, and the ways in which these late 19th century ideas were absorbed into the mummers' plays, providing a new lease of life for them in the 20th and 21st centuries. Ideal for anyone with a specialised interest in this unique form, Mummers' Plays Revisited spans recent work in theatre history, performance studies and folklore to offer a comprehensive and engaging study.
Author : Alan Brody
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512814814
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The English Mummers and Their Plays written by Alan Brody and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Alan Brody
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780710070678
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The English Mummers and Their Plays written by Alan Brody and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1970 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Helm
Publisher : Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer for the Folklore Society ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The English Mummers' Play written by Alex Helm and published by Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer for the Folklore Society ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield. This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eddie Cass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The English Mumming Play written by Eddie Cass and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Harrop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000401596
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance written by Peter Harrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.
Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812211399
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book All Silver and No Brass written by Henry Glassie and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautifully written exploration of a vanishing holiday ritual that can be traced back to the dramas of the sixteenth century and beyond." --Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Robert Wyndham Nicholls
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496801180
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Jumbies' Playing Ground written by Robert Wyndham Nicholls and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the world topsy-turvy. Modern carnivals, which evolved from earlier ritual celebrations featuring disguised performers, are important cultural andeconomic events throughout the Caribbean, a direct link to a multilayered history. This work explores the evolutionary connections in function, garb, and behavior between Afro-Creole masquerades and precursors from West Africa, the British Isles, and Western Europe. Robert Wyndham Nicholls utilizes a concept of play derived from Africa to describe a range of lighthearted and ritualistic activities. Along with Old World seeds, he studies the evolution of Afro- Creole prototypes that emerged in the Eastern Caribbean--bush masquerades, stilt dancers, animal disguises, she-males, female masquerades, and carnival clowns. Masquerades enact social, political, and spiritual roles within recurring festivals, initiations, wakes, skimmingtons, and weddings. The author explores performance in terms of abstraction in costume-disguise and the aesthetics of music, songs, drum rhythms, dance, and licentiousness. He reveals masquerades as transformative agent, ancestral endorser, behavior manager, informal educator, and luck conferrer.
Author : Edwin Christopher Cawte
Publisher : London : Folk-lore Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book English Ritual Drama written by Edwin Christopher Cawte and published by London : Folk-lore Society. This book was released on 1967 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an index to all known examples of ritual drama in Great Britain, with a discussion of origins and parallels outside the British Isles.
Author : George Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Mummer's Wife written by George Moore and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gassner
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780936839844
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Medieval and Tudor Drama written by John Gassner and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents examples of folk drama, and morality plays, and the early tragedies and comedies following classical models
Author : Sara Hannant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858945590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids written by Sara Hannant and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides an album of over 50 folk rituals performed across England, from Cornwall to Northumberland, throughout the year. More than 100 colour photographs accompanied by illuminating captions trace the history and significance of each ritual.
Author : Murray Dubin
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394291
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (942 download)
Download or read book South Philadelphia written by Murray Dubin and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mayors and mummers to tap dancers and gamblers, South Philly has it all. This quintessential Philadelphia neighborhood boasts a complicated history of ethnic strife alongside community solidarity and, for good measure, some of the best bakeries in town. Among its many famous people South Philadelphia claims Marian Anderson, Frankie Avalon, Mayor Frank Rizzo, Temple Owl's coach John Chaney, Larry Fine of the Three Stooges, and "Loving" soap opera actress Lisa Peluso. For South Philadelphians, whether they stay or leave, the neighborhood is always happy to give you their opinions, and in this book they talk about their favorite subject to Murray Dubin, award winning journalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, who also called South Philly home. Music and the arts are part of everyday life. Baritone Elliott Tessler says, "I'm not a celebrity, I'm a minor curiosity. If Pavarotti lived here, he would just be a minor curiosity, and probably because he was fat more than because he sang." Jean DiElsi remembers finding work in 1943 as a cashier at a diner that would become a South Philly landmark. "It was the only diner around and it was open 24 hours. If you went to dances, everybody would go to the Melrose Diner afterwards...No, there was no Mel or Rose. it was named after a can of tomatoes. In addition to being Philadelphia's first neighborhood, South Philly is the oldest ethnically and racially mixed big-city neighborhood in the nation. Catherine Williams remembers growing up black on Hoffman Street, "We had everything. We had the Jews, we had Italians, we had the blacks, we even had a Portuguese family. You never knew there was a color thing back then. I was the only black in my class at Southwark, but you never knew. In the third, fourth grade, some of those Italian boys was big, but you would have thought they were brothers to me." These are some of the people and the opinions that make up South Philadelphia and Murray Dubin will take you on a resident's tour of the ultimate city neighborhood. But for every interview, there's also a lot of history. And Dubin provides an historical examination that spans 300 years, from Thomas Jefferson living in South Philadelphia in 1793 to the burning of Palumbo's in 1994. Whether you're a South Philadelphian yourself, or just want to understand the South Philly phenomenon this book is a must. Author note: Murray Dubinwas born in South Philadelphia and is a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199574197
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.
Author : Roger Caillois
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070334
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Man, Play, and Games written by Roger Caillois and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.
