The Performance of English Folk Plays: A Study in Dramatic Form and Social Function
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Type of record: Archive
Title: The Performance of English Folk Plays: A Study in Dramatic Form and Social Function
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/014
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Antrobus, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3206, -2.52977 ); Subject - Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7263, -1.54547 ); Subject - Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.0496, -1.7767 ); Subject - Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1358, -1.52826 ); Subject - Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8984, -1.86488 )
Date(s): 1980
Size and medium: xvi, 552 bound typed leaves; 36 b/w, colour photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409910
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Ph.D. thesis based on fieldwork carried out between October 1977 and February 1980, in five places where traditions of the English folk play remain extant. These are the Soulcakers of Antrobus, mumming in Bampton, Chipping Campden and Ripon, and guizing in Uttoxeter. Part one, Theory, contains chapters reviewing the scholarship of the English folk play and outlining a methodological approach to its study. Part two, Data, contains chapters on the five locations chosen for study. In each case, the chapter describes the location, cites historical references to performances, provides play texts, describes contemporary performances and offers preliminary analysis. Part three, Analysis, contains chapters on a suggested morphology of the English folk play, and the meaning of the folk play. Three appendices contain an index to the field tape recordings, tune transcriptions of the Opening and Closing songs in Antrobus and Ripon, and the Closing songs sung in Bampton and Campden, and variant texts
referred to in the thesis.
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