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Folk Drama

  • Reviews - Books: 'In Comes I': Performance, Memory and Landscape, by Mike Pearson
    Folk Music Journal, 2008, Vol.9, No.3, pp.432-433    [Full Text]
  • "This is a Mummers’ Play I Wrote": Modern Compositions and their Implications
    in: Border-Crossing: Mumming in Cross-Border and Cross-Community Contexts, ed. by A.D.Buckley, C.Mac Cárthaigh, S.Ó Catháin & S.Mac Mathuna
    Dundalk, Dundalgan Press, 2007, ISBN 0-85221-147-7, pp.202-233
  • Electronic ERD: An Index to English Folk Drama
    [Online editor with compilers E.C.Cawte, A.Helm & N.Peacock]
    Internet URL: www.mastermummers.org/erd/index.htm, 2007
  • Folk Play Scripts Explorer
    Internet URL: www.mastermummers.org/scripts/explorer.htm, 2007
  • 'Plough Bullocks' and other Plough Monday Customs in the Nottingham Area, 1800-1920
    Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 2005, Vol.109, pp.127-137    [Full Text]
  • Letters: A Black and White Issue?
    EDS English Dance and Song, Autumn.2005, Vol.67, No.3, pp.31-32    [Full Text]
  • Reviews - Electronic Resources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue
    Folk Music Journal, 2004, Vol.8, No.4, pp.545-546
  • D.H.Lawrence and the Guysers
    Traditional Drama Forum, Sep.2003, No.8    [Full Text]
  • Folk Drama Studies Today: The International Traditional Drama Conference 2002
    [Edited with Eddie Cass]
    Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003, ISBN 0-9508152-3-3
  • "This is a Mummers’ Play I Wrote": Modern Compositions and their Implications
    Conference on 'Mumming Traditions in Cross-Border and Cross-Community Contexts', Derry, 9-13 June 2003
    Ulster Studies in Irish and Celtic, in press    [Full Text]
  • The Truro Cordwainers' Play: a 'New' 18th-Century Christmas Play
    Folklore, April 2003, Vol.114, No.1, pp.53-73    [Full Text]
  • Who is the Guy on the Left?: An Unexpected Twist to a 19th-century Mummers' Illustration
    Traditional Drama Forum, Jan.2003, No.6    [Full Text]
  • Textual Analysis of English Quack Doctor Plays: Some New Discoveries
    in: Folk Drama Studies Today: The International Traditional Drama Conference 2002, ed. by E.Cass & P.Millington
    Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003, ISBN 0-9508152-3-3, pp.97-132    [PDF Download - 841kB]
  • Book Reviews: The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play, by Eddie Cass
    Folklore, Oct.2002, Vol.113, No.2, pp.273-274
  • The Origins and Development of English Folk Plays
    PhD Thesis, University of Sheffield, May 2002    [Extended Abstract] [Full text PDF Download - 2.7MB]
  • The Cropwell Ploughboy's Costume of 1893
    Traditional Drama Forum, Jan.2002, No.4    [Full Text]
  • Doctor Peter Lamb - A Mystery Solved
    Traditional Drama Forum, Oct.2001, No.3    [Full Text]
  • Historical Database of Folk Play Scripts
    Internet URL: http://www.folkplay.info/Texts.htm, 1999-2004
  • Bibliography of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays and Related Customs
    Internet URL: http://www.folkplay.info/Notts/NottsBib.htm, 1999
  • Mrs Ewing and the Textual Origin of the St Kitts Mummies'; Play
    Folklore, 1996, Vol.107, pp.77-89
  • Correspondence : 'The Ploughboy and the Plough Play' by Alun Howkins and Linda Merricks in Journal, 6.2(1991), 187-208, and Correspondence from Beth Shaw in Journal, 6.4(1993), 506-07
    Folk Music Journal, 1995, Vol.7, No.1, pp.71-72    [Full Text]
  • Plough Monday in and around the City of Nottingham
    Annual Conference of the Folk Life Society, University of Nottingham, September 1992,    [Full Text]
  • Obituary: Maurice Willmore Barley : 19th Aug.1909 to 23rd June 1991
    Folklore, 1992, Vol.103, No.1, pp.108-109
  • "Où se trouve ce Jeu de Mummers?"
    Roomer, 1989, Vol.7, No.3, pp.29-33
  • Mystery History : The Origins of British Mummers' Plays
    American Morris Newsletter, Nov./Dec.1989, Vol.13, No.3, pp.9-16    [Full Text]
  • The Problems of Analysing Folk Play Cast Lists using Numerical Methods
    Traditional Drama Studies, 1988, Vol.2, pp.30-44
    [First presented as a conference paper at Traditional Drama 1978]
  • Possible Origins of the Name 'Tipteers' or 'Tipteerers'
    Roomer, 1986, Vol.6, No.6, pp.57-58
  • A New Look at English Folk Play Costumes
    Traditional Drama 1985 : The 8th Annual Conference on Traditional Drama Studies, University of Sheffield, 12th Oct.1985    [Full Text]
  • August Hartmann's 'Folk Plays Collected in Bavaria and Austria-Hungary': A Summary
    Roomer, 1984, Vol.4, No.1, pp.5-6
  • Surveys through Newspapers: Traditional Drama Research Group - Research Guide 4
    [with Derek Schofield and Dave Bathe]
    Roomer, 1985, Vol.5, No.1, pp.3-6
  • Research Guide No.1: Questions to Ask
    Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 1983
  • 'PLAYGRAPHS' - A Computer Program to Aid the Plotting of Play Structures
    Roomer, 1982, Vol.2, No.4, pp.25-26
  • M.W.Barley's Classification of Plough Plays
    Roomer, 1982, Vol.2, No.1, pp.5-7
  • Graphs for Visualising the Structures of Folk Plays
    Roomer, 1980, Vol.1, No.2, pp.8-10
  • An Interim List of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays and Related Customs
    Long Eaton, P.T.Millington, 1980
    Reprinted: Sheffield, Traditional Drama Research Group, 1984
  • The Origins of Plough Monday
    Traditional Drama '79, One Day Conference, University of Sheffield, 20th Oct.1979    [Full Text]
  • P.T.Millington Collection, 232 College Street, Long Eaton, Nottingham, NG10 4GW
    Copies: Local Studies Library, Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
    Archives, University of Nottingham
    Archives, Institute of Dialect & Folk Life Studies, University of Leeds
    Archives, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield.

Other Folklore

  • Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway: Folklore and Customs
    Internet URL: http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/gateway/themes/folklore/folklore1.htm,
    Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 2008
  • Folklore on the Internet. Asset? Liability? Opportunity? Threat?
    Seminar presented at NATCECT, University of Sheffield, December 2003   [Seminar Notes]
  • Chain Letters to Nature
    Australian Folklore, 1996, Vol.11, pp.224-226
  • Tiger Miscellany: A Collection of Folklore Items from the Tiger Newsletter
    Long Eaton, Traditions at the Tiger, 1995, 20pp.
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