| Title: | Master mummers |
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| Description: | The Master Mummers website provides information on the performance and history of traditional folk plays, often also called guisers' or mummers' plays. The site is the work of Peter Millington, the author of two other sites looking at folk plays, one of which (the Folk Play Research page) the Master Mummers site is designed to complement. This site provides a number of databases of folk-play related information, including: a directory of folk play groups; an updated electronic version of the 1967 book 'English Ritual Drama'; and a 'Folk Play Scripts Explorer' containing full and fragmentary texts (mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries) of over 200 of these short plays. All the databases are easily searchable, and provide a wealth of information concerning: types of folk play; plots; stock characters; geographical distribution of performances; and the revival of the tradition. The site also has an email list, and a FAQ relating to the performance of folk plays. This resource would be a very useful starting point for anyone considering staging a play, or those researching the history of British folk plays. |
| Keywords - controlled: | plays (document genre); drama; literature (writings); |
| Keywords - uncontrolled: | mummers' plays; guisers' plays; folk plays; mumming |
| Type: | Research related resources; Papers/reports/articles/texts |
| URL: | http://www.mastermummers.org/ |
| Classification: |
Creative and performing arts > Theatre and drama > Plays and playwrights > Play scripts and texts Creative and performing arts > Theatre and drama > Production and performance Creative and performing arts > Theatre and drama > Theatre history Humanities > English > Drama Modern languages and area studies > European > English > Drama Modern languages and area studies > Europe > Europe by region / Country > Western Europe > United Kingdom > Theatre studies |
| Resource creator: | Millington, Peter (Author) |
| Country of origin: | United Kingdom |
| Period: | 18th Century; 19th Century; 20th Century (1900 - 1945); 20th Century (1946 - 1999); 2000 - present |
