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Archive File

Pace Egg Plays

1962-1976

This file contains items relating to pace egg plays, including transcriptions of play texts, and plays featuring St. George. This includes a copy of 'The Peace Egg, or St. George: An Easter Play' (Roc...

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Mumming: Play Texts, Etc.

Millington, Peter T

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains photocopied and typed papers, produced and collected by Peter Millington, on mumming and mummers' plays, with particular reference to Nottinghamshire. (In the following list, a coun...

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Manners and movements in costume plays

Chisman, Isabel; Raven-Hart, Hester Emilie

[1934]

Music: p. 96.

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Pace Egg Plays and Mumming: Correspondence

1975

This file contains photocopies of ms. letters sent to Mr. Gerald Tyler on Pace Egg plays and mumming in Brighouse. The correspondence appears to be in response to appeals for information in the 'Brigh...

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Pace Egg and Mumming Plays, and Christmas Carols

Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy (made in the early 1970s) of part of an ms. notebook, with printed extracts pasted in, compiled by Sidney Oldall Addy probably during the 1870s. This includes ms. notes ...

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The Uttoxeter Feather Guizers' Christmas Mumming Play

Eames, Bronwen A

1981

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 Uttoxete...

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Folk Drama and the Chapbook. A Study of the Folk Play in Greater Manchester

Stevenson, Peter

1976

[M.A.] dissertation examining the folk play and printed Chapbook versions of the play in the Greater Manchester area of England. Its first two chapters present the available evidence on the subject, e...

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The Pace-Egg Play in the Upper Calder Valley: Evidence Relating to a Folk Play Tradition, Illustrating its Features and Social Function from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. A Discussion of its Continuity

Swan, Nigel T

1975

M.A. research exercise examining the history and contemporary manifestations of the Pace Egg Play (a form of Mumming play), customarily performed each Easter in the towns and villages of the Calder Va...

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St. George and the Dragon: A Study in Folk Art

Green, R J

1964

M.A. study [submitted as part of an English Literature degree] comprising ten chapters and five appendices. These discuss definitions of the folk play (with reference made to related calendar customs)...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

4 November 1977

[Announcement by Graham Seal]; Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in Antrobus Parish Hall [?for an audience of schoolchildren]. Includes the complete play, with introductory and closi...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

24 December 1977

Bampton Mummers performing their Christmas play at the Elephant and Castle pub in Bampton. This is an incomplete recording of the play, starting with the Doctor's speech. Much of the dialogue is maske...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about songwriting, singing and playing at dances in the local school hall; playing the banjo and ukulele; sings and p...

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