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Mumming: General

Archive File: LAVC/FLF/14/4/3

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Mumming: General

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/FLF/14/4/3

Date(s): 1962-1980

Size and medium: 1 file of photocopied papers, and 1 reprint.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410796

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

This file contains items generally related to the practice of mumming, and mumming plays. This includes a photocopy of Rosemary Meynell's paper, 'Come, Brave Bow Slash and his Men', from 'Derbyshire Countryside' (ca. Christmas 1962), pp. 22-23 and 35, on guisering in Derbyshire; a copy of Margaret Dean-Smith's paper, 'An Un-Romantic View of the Mumming Play', reprinted from 'Theatre Research', volume VIII, number 2 (1966), pp. 89-99 and 2 leaves of plates, with the author's ms. inscription; a photocopy of I. M. Killip's paper on The White Boys (a version of the St. George play) and the Mollag Band on the Isle of Man, from 'Journal of the Manx Museum', volume 7, (1973?), pp. 201-205; a copy of a typed paper on the Ridgeway Derby Tup, with ms. map and musical notation, consisting of notes for Garland Films' 'The Derby Tup', produced by Ian Russell and Barry Callaghan, including selected bibliography and a copy of the Garland Films publicity and order form for the film (1975); a photocopy of a
typed transcript of a Ripon Mummers' performance, recorded by Peter Harrop (26 December 1977) on tapes LAVC/SRE/A516r and LAVC/SRE/A517r; and a photocopy of a typed draft(?) of Stephen Roud and Paul Marsh's 'Mumming Plays in Hampshire', 7th edition (June 1980), 35 leaves, a list of plays researched in Hampshire arranged alphabetically by place.


File arranged chronologically.

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Peter Harrop's transcription of the Ripon Mummers is copyrighted and cannot be photocopied.

© Peter Harrop

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