CANADA |
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Newfoundland |
Type |
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Tragedy of St.George, St.John's, Newfoundland, c.1840 |
Irish |
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The Salvage Play, Newfoundland, c.1900 |
Southern English |
• |
Soldiers acting at Christmas, Change Islands, Newfoundland - 1900 |
Hero/Combat |
CARIBBEAN |
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Nevis |
Type |
• |
Mummies, Pot Works, Nevis, 1930s |
Compiled Hybrid |
St Kitts |
Type |
• |
Mummies, St.Kitts, New Year's Day 1966 |
Compiled Hybrid |
ENGLAND |
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Berkshire |
Type |
• |
Mid-Berkshire Mummers 1888 |
Cotswold |
• |
Text Fragments of Compton Mummers, Berks. - 1888 |
Southern English |
• |
2. Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks. [Mummers, 1900] |
Irish |
• |
1. Childrey, Berks. [Fragment - 1926] |
Quack Doctor |
• |
3. Witley [sic], Reading, Berks. [1930] |
Southern English |
Cambridgeshire |
Type |
• |
Christmas rhyme from J.Ray (1670) |
Literary Parallel |
Cheshire |
Type |
• |
Cheshire Play - Before 1788 |
Northern English |
• |
"Saint George and Slasher" - Sandbach, 1817 |
Alexander Chapbook |
• |
Souling Play from Stapleford, Cheshire, 1908 to 1914 |
Northern English |
• |
Souling Play from Huxley, Cheshire, 1913 |
Northern English |
• |
Rudheath (Cheshire) Souling Play [1949] |
Northern English |
Cornwall |
Type |
• |
Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s |
Hero/Combat |
• |
Cornish Christmas Play - 1827 |
Southern English |
• |
Tredrea Christmas Play - 1822 |
Southern English |
• |
Cornish Christmas Play - 1833 |
Hero/Combat |
• |
Guise-Dance Play, Saint Keverne [Cornwall, 1855] |
Southern English |
• |
A Redruth Christmas Play : 1910-1925 |
Galoshins C |
• |
Camborne, Cornwall : The Christmas Play - 1913-1916 |
Southern English |
Cumberland |
Type |
• |
T.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook [1810-1826] |
Alexander Chapbook |
• |
Callander & Dixon's Alexander Chapbook - 1847-1891 |
Alexander Chapbook |
• |
A.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook - 1883-1901 |
Alexander Chapbook |
• |
6. "The Sword-dancers" Cumberland. [1930] |
Galoshins C |
• |
Christmas Play from Blennerhasset, Cumberland 1930 |
North British |
Derbyshire |
Type |
• |
A Christmas Play, Performed by the Derbyshire Mummers - 1849 |
Northern English |
• |
The Derby Ram, 1867 |
Derby Tup |
• |
Brimington Mummers' Play [Derbyshire, 1862] |
Northern English |
• |
The Old Horse, North Derbyshire [1907] |
Old Horse |
• |
The Old Tup, Castleton, 1901 |
Derby Tup |
• |
5. "Guisers" play on Xmas Eve, Repton, Derbyshire, Jan., 1909. |
Northern English |
• |
Kirk Hallam Christmas Guisers Play - 1907 |
Northern English |
• |
4. Church Broughton, Derbyshire. [1930] |
Northern English |
• |
The Somercotes Guisers, 1942-1945 |
Northern English |
• |
The Old Tup, Staveley, Mr.Gascoyne's Version, 1946 |
Derby Tup |
• |
Old Tup, Staveley, Mrs.Wragg's Version, 1946 |
Derby Tup |
• |
T'Owd Tup, Eckington, 1969 |
Derby Tup |
• |
T'Owd Tup - Eckington, 1969 |
Derby Tup |
Devon |
Type |
• |
Exeter Fragment, 1737 or 1770 |
Southern English |
• |
The Silverton Mummers' Rhymes - 1873 |
Southern English |
• |
Christmas Play from Bovey Tracey - 1913-1916 |
Southern English |
Dorset |
Type |
• |
The Mummers [Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, 1880s] |
Southern English |
• |
South West Dorset Mummers' Play 1880 |
Southern English |
• |
Symondsbury Mummers' Play 1880 |
Southern English |
Durham |
Type |
• |
Sword Dancers, Durham, 1834 |
Sword Dance |
• |
Gainford, Durham, Sword-Dance Play - 1860 |
Sword Dance |
• |
"Sword Dancers" play, Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham [1913-1915] |
Galoshins B |
• |
The Guisers' Play, from High Spen, Co.Durham [1925] |
Galoshins C |
• |
Greatham Sword Dance Play - 1924 |
Sword Dance |
Gloucestershire |
Type |
• |
Christmas Mummers' Play from Weston-sub-Edge, Glos. - 1864 |
Cotswold |
• |
Christmas Mummers Play from Kempsford, Glos. - 1868 |
Robin Hood |
• |
Mumming Play from Longborough, Glos. - 1905-1906 |
Cotswold |
• |
Christmas Play from Cinderford, Glos. - 1913-1916 |
Cotswold |
• |
Christmas Mummers Play from Sapperton, Glos. - 1914 |
Cotswold |
• |
Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916 |
Cotswold |
• |
South Cerney (Gloucestershire) Mummers Play |
Robin Hood |
Hampshire |
Type |
• |
Romsey Mummers' Play - 1796-1837 |
Southern English |
• |
Christmas: his Pageant Play, or Mysterie of "St.George" - 1842 |
Compiled Hybrid |
• |
Christmas Play from Hampshire - 1859 |
Southern English |
• |
The Christmas Mummers [Yonge's novel] 1858 |
Southern English |
• |
Hampshire Mummers [Fragments, 1861] |
Southern English |
• |
Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 1 - 1908 |
Southern English |
• |
Christmas Play from Bursledon, Hants. - 1913-1916 |
Southern English |
• |
Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 2 - 1914 |
Cotswold |
• |
Johnny Jacks Play from Overton, Hants. - 1913 |
Southern English |
Kent |
Type |
• |
Christmas Champions play from Westerham, Kent [c.1896-97] |
Southern English |
Lancashire |
Type |
• |
The Peace Egg Book [R.Carr, 1836-1838] |
Irish |
• |
Pace, Peace, or Paste Egging [Hulme, 1842] |
Irish |
• |
Atkinson's "St. George and the Turkish Knight", 1885 |
Southern English |
• |
Hawkshead Easter Pace-Egg Play - 1898 |
Northern English |
• |
Dendron Pace Egg Mummers Play, 1904 |
Northern English |
• |
Fragment from Ormskirk (Lancashire) : Pace-egging Song - 1930 |
Quack Doctor |
Leicestershire |
Type |
• |
Lutterworth St. George Play - 1863 |
Hero/Combat |
Lincolnshire |
Type |
• |
The "Plouboys oR modes dancers" at Revesby 1779 |
Multiple Wooing |
• |
Morrice Dancers at Revesby - 1779 |
Multiple Wooing |
• |
Recruiting Sergeant [1823-1888] |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824 |
Multiple Wooing |
• |
Broughton Play [Lincs.] - Text B - 1824 |
Multiple Wooing |
• |
Broughton Xmas Play [Lincs.] - Text C - 1824 |
Multiple Wooing |
• |
Bassingham Men's play 1823 Xmas |
Multiple Wooing |
• |
Bassingham Childrens play Xmas 1823 |
Multiple Wooing |
• |
Swinderby Decr. 31st 1842 Play |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Plough-Jags' Ditties from North Lincolnshire - 1876 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Plough Jacks' Play from Willoughton - 1889 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
New Holland Mummers [1880] |
Hero/Combat |
• |
Plough-Jags [probably from Market Rasen, Lincs., 1884] |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Lincolnshire Plough Jags play - 1890 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Play from Brattleby, Lincolnshire, 1894 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Kirton-in-Lindsey Plough-Jags Play - 1890 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Morris Dancers' play Fragment from Mumby - 1890 |
Plough |
• |
Hibaldstow Ploughboys' Play -1901 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Plough Monday fragment from Winterton - 1901 |
Plough |
• |
Jerusalem, Lincs., Plough Play - 1914 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Play from Bulby, Lincs. - 1913-1916 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
The "Plough Jacks'" Play from Kirmington, Lincs. - 1923 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Plough Jagg's Play : Bassingham - 1952 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
Middlesex |
Type |
• |
Chiswick Mummers' play, 1860 |
Hero/Combat |
Northamptonshire |
Type |
• |
Helpston Moris Dance Drama - Clare's text - 1825 |
Hero/Combat |
• |
Northamptonshire Tander Mumming Fragments - 1851 |
Hero/Combat |
• |
Mumming [Thenford, Northants. 1854] |
Cotswold |
• |
Mumies Play from Badby, Northants. - 1913-1916 |
Cotswold |
• |
Sulgrave Mummers' Play [Northamptonshire, 1921] |
Cotswold |
Northumberland |
Type |
• |
J.White's Alexander Chapbook - 1746-1769 |
Alexander Chapbook |
• |
The Sword Dancers, Tyne & Wear, 1815 |
Sword Dance |
• |
The Mummers [Allendale, 1860-1870] |
Galoshins C |
• |
Scremerston Guizards, Northumberland [before 1913] |
Galoshins B |
Nottinghamshire |
Type |
• |
Recruiting Speech of 1796 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Morrissing in North Notts. - 1845-1850 |
Northern English |
• |
South Notts Plough Bullock Day Play - 1873 |
Hero/Combat |
• |
King George Play from Kirkby Woodhouse, Notts. - 1887 |
Hero/Combat |
• |
South Scarle Plough Monday Play, 1882 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Blidworth Plough Bullocking Play, 1896 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Cropwell, Notts. Ploughboys' Play - 1890 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
The Old Horse: Christmas Play from Notts. [1902] |
Old Horse |
• |
The Little Tup, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts., 1906 |
Derby Tup |
• |
Selston Mummers' Play - 1913 |
Northern English |
• |
Calverton Plough Monday Play Fragment, 1951 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
North Muskham, Notts. - Plough Monday Play - 1914 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
A Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Another Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Plough Boy's Play - Edingley Version [Notts., 1920s] |
Northern English |
• |
Bull Guysering Play from Selston, Notts. - 1932 |
Northern English |
• |
Guysers Play from Underwood, Notts., 1935 & 1936 |
Northern English |
• |
Blidworth Plough Monday Play, c.1939 |
Northern English |
• |
The Plough Boys (from Tollerton, Nottinghamshire) 1950 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Farnsfield Plough Play [Nottinghamshire, 1966] |
Recruiting Sergeant |
Oxfordshire |
Type |
• |
The Islip Mummers' Play of 1780 |
Cotswold |
• |
Oxfordshire Christmas Mummers play - 1794 |
Cotswold |
• |
Mummers' Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816 |
Cotswold |
• |
The Christmas Play - Bampton Mummers 1847 |
Composed |
• |
Mummers at Christmas (1840) [Chipping Norton] |
Cotswold |
• |
The Mummers' Performance, Lower Heyford - 1885 |
Cotswold |
• |
Bold Robin Hood : Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon. - 1913-1916 |
Robin Hood |
• |
Play from Leafield, Oxfordshire - 1913-1916 |
Cotswold |
• |
The Mummers' Act from Cuddesdon, Oxon - 1914 |
Cotswold |
• |
Waterstock, Oxfordshire play - 1914 |
Cotswold |
Rutland |
Type |
• |
Edith Weston Morris-Dancers Play, c.1898 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
• |
Plough-Monday Play from Clipsham, Rutland, 1904 |
Recruiting Sergeant |
Shropshire |
Type |
• |
Newport Version [Christmas Morris-Dancers' Play, Shropshire, 1879] |
Northern English |
Somerset |
Type |
• |
Cure at Bristol Fair 1770 |
Hero/Combat |
• |
A Christmas Play from Keynsham [Hunter] 1822 |
Cotswold |
• |
Christmas Play from North Somerset - 1913-1916 |
Southern English |
Staffordshire |
Type |
• |
Mummers' Play from Hamstall Ridware (Staffs.) 1884 |
Northern English |
• |
Penkridge Christmas Play, 1899 |
Alexander Chapbook |
• |
Burntwood Guisers' Play [Staffordshire, pre-1939] |
Northern English |
Surrey |
Type |
• |
2 Chiddingfold (Surrey) tip-teering play [1860] |
Southern English |
Sussex |
Type |
• |
Ovingdean, Sussex play - 1870 |
Southern English |
• |
Sompting Tipteerers's Play, 1882 |
Southern English |
• |
Tipteerers' Duologue from Cocking, Sussex - 1903-1906 |
Southern English |
Warwickshire |
Type |
• |
Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899 |
Galoshins C |
• |
Broadwell Christmas Play, 1900 or 1901 |
Cotswold |
• |
Play from Great Wolford, Warks. - 1913-1916 |
Cotswold |
• |
Play from Ilmington, Warks. - 1913-1916 |
Cotswold |
• |
Play from Pillerton, Warks. - 1913-1916 |
Cotswold |
• |
Christmas Mummers of Stoneleigh [1925] |
Cotswold |
Westmorland |
Type |
• |
Pace-Egging from Ambleside (Westmorland) 1930 |
Northern English |
Wiltshire |
Type |
• |
Inglesham Christmas Play - 1840 to 1850 |
Robin Hood |
• |
Christmas Boys or Mummers, Potterne, 1876-1890 |
Southern English |
• |
Mummers' Play from Alton Barnes (Wiltshire) 1930 |
Southern English |
Worcestershire |
Type |
• |
Mummers' Play from Upper & Lower Howsell, Worcs. - 1856-1857 |
Southern English |
• |
Play from Malvern, Worcs. - 1913-1916 |
Southern English |
Yorkshire |
Type |
• |
W.Walker's Peace Egg Chapbook - 1840-1877 |
Northern English |
• |
J.Pearce's Mummers' Act or Morris Dancers 'Chapbook - 1837-1849 |
Northern English |
• |
Walker's New Mummer, or, The Wassail Cup - 1855 |
Composed |
• |
Bellerby Sword Dance Play, 1879 & 1926 |
Sword Dance |
• |
The Old Horse, Sheffield District, Yorkshire, 1888 |
Old Horse |
• |
Ampleforth Play - 1898 |
Sword Dance |
• |
Plough Boy's Play from Selby - 1892 |
Northern English |
• |
The Old Tup, Braithwell, 1895 |
Derby Tup |
• |
The Paceakers' Play, Heptonstall - 1909 |
Northern English |
• |
Words of the Ripon Sword-Dance - 1920 |
Northern English |
• |
Mummers' Play from Skelton (Yorkshire) 1930 |
Galoshins C |
• |
Mummers' Play from Coxwold (Yorkshire) 1930 |
Northern English |
[General] |
Type |
• |
"Spectrvm" from "Wily Begvuilde" 1606 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Vindication of Christmas - Speech - 1653 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
126 : Robin Hood and the Tanner [Ballad] 1663 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Diphilo and Granida - 1673 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Congreve's Love for Love, Act 3, Scene 6 - 1695 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Infallible Mountebank - 1707 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Rosamond, an Opera - 1707 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
S.Nicholls' Infallible Doctor Broadside - 1700-1740 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France - 1730 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
The Honest Yorkshireman [Extract] 1736 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
The Diverting History of John Gilpin |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Second thoughts are best [dialogue ballad] 1780-1812 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
The Old Horse [1819-1844] |
Old Horse |
• |
"Young Roger of the Mill" Broadside - 1820-1824 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Mummers: Penny Magazine - 1837 |
Southern English |
• |
A New Dialogue Between a Husbandman and a Servant Man - Before 1838 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
Christmas Play of St.George and the Dragon [West of England, 1852] |
Southern English |
• |
The Four Champions of Great Britain - 1879-1884 |
Composed |
• |
"When good King Arthur ruled this land" 1871 |
Literary Parallel |
• |
The Peace Egg : A Christmas Mumming Play - 1884 |
Compiled Hybrid |
IRELAND |
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Antrim |
Type |
• |
Belfast Christmas Rhyme - Smyth & Lyons (1803-1818) |
Irish |
• |
Christmas Rhymers in the North of Ireland : Belfast 1872 |
Irish |
• |
Christmas Rhymers from Mullaghcarton - 1885 |
Irish |
• |
Belfast : "The Christmas Rime" from R.J.E.Tiddy (1923) - 1913-1916 |
Irish |
Donegal |
Type |
• |
Christmas play from Dromore - 1886 |
Irish |
Fermanagh |
Type |
• |
Belcoo Christmas Play, c.1940 |
Irish |
Louth |
Type |
• |
Boys' play from Braganstown - 1890 |
Irish |
• |
Boys' play from Dundalk - 1915 |
Irish |
Wexford |
Type |
• |
Ballybrennan, Wexford play - about 1823 |
Irish |
ISLE OF MAN |
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Ellan Vannin |
Type |
• |
The White Boys [Isle of Man] 1845 |
Alexander Chapbook |
SCOTLAND |
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Ayrshire |
Type |
• |
Cumnock Play, c.1883 |
Galoshins C |
Borders |
Type |
• |
Christmas Gysarts Play from Bowden - 1815 |
Galoshins A |
Fife |
Type |
• |
Culross play, 1893 |
Galoshins B |
Forfarshire |
Type |
• |
The New Year Mummers' Tale of Galaschin - Forfarshire 1888 |
Galoshins B |
Galloway |
Type |
• |
Christmas, Yule-Boys play from Galloway - 1824 |
Hero/Combat |
Kirkudbright |
Type |
• |
Laurieston Hallowe'en Play (a), 1897 |
Galoshins C |
• |
Laurieston Play (b), 1897 |
Galoshins C |
• |
Hallowe'en Play from Balmaghie, 1897 |
Galoshins C |
Peeblesshire |
Type |
• |
Galatian, a New-Year Play [from Peebles] 1841 |
Galoshins A |
Perthshire |
Type |
• |
Crieff Guisers' Play, 1884 |
Galoshins B |
Roxburghshire |
Type |
• |
Galation from the Abbotsford Collection Text (a) 1812-1832 |
Galoshins A |
• |
Guisards Play from the Abbotsford Collection Text (b) 1812-1832 |
Galoshins B |
Shetland |
Type |
• |
Scott's Papa Stour Sword Dance - 1788 |
Non-Quack Doctor |
Stirlingshire |
Type |
• |
Hogmany Play from Falkirk - J.W.Reddock, 1825 |
Galoshins A |
• |
Stirling Play of Galations, 1835 |
Galoshins B |
• |
Falkirk Play, 1841 |
Galoshins A |
USA |
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Kentucky |
Type |
• |
The Turkish Knight [Fragments. Caney Creek, Kentucky, 1925] |
Cotswold |
• |
The Christmas Play, Gander, Kentucky, 1930 |
Cotswold |
• |
A Plough Monday Play [Kentucky, c.1860] |
Recruiting Sergeant |
WALES |
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Glamorganshire |
Type |
• |
Christmas Play from Llanmadoc and Cheriton - 1879 |
Southern English |
Pembrokeshire |
Type |
• |
Tenby Guisers' Play - 1857 |
Irish |
West Glamorgan |
Type |
• |
Dunvant Christmas Sport, Collected 1916 |
Southern English |