The Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play
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Type of record: Archive
Title: The Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/179
Creator(s): Eames, Bronwen A
Site Location(s): Subject - Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8984, -1.86488 )
Date(s): 1981
Size and medium: 37 unbound typed leaves; 6 colour photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410215
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A dissertation which examines the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' mumming play, its importance to the people who act it, the town's mumming tradition and the contemporary importance of the play to Uttoxeter as a community. The play is examined as a production, inclusive of its history, and its significance in 1981 is analysed from fieldwork carried out over the preceding eighteen months.
Following the Introduction, Chapter Two concerns the mummers themselves, and includes a family tree and biographies of those involved in the play in 1981. Chapter Three presents a history of the play, with further sections on costumes, the role of the Guizers, the route they take through the town, the collection and the Mummers' Supper. The fourth chapter contains a textual transcription of the play, a description of the reception given to the Guizers in 1980, and a look at the play in the context of the mummers' play. Chapter Five presents an analysis of a street survey carried out in Uttoxeter in January 1981, and interviews with five people familiar with the play, using questionnaires developed by the collector. Photographs of the 1979 performance, and articles from a local newspaper, are included.
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