Mummers' Plays Revisited

ISBN-13: 9780367727734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 218 str.

Peter Harrop

Opis

Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers’ plays, which have long been regarded as a form of ‘folk’ or ‘traditional’ drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

First Visit: Introducing Mummers’ Plays.

Chapter One: A Theatrical Background.

Chapter Two: First Sightings.

Chapter Three: Turning Theatre into Folklore.

Revisiting: The Last Hundred Years.

Index

O autorze

Peter Harrop is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chester, formerly Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He has published in Lore and Language; Folk Life; Performance Research and Contemporary Theatre Review, among other journals, and in 2013 he co-edited Performance Ethnography with Dunja Njaradi. Peter is co-Editor (with Steve Roud) of The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance due for publication in June 2021.