Mummers' Plays Revisited
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This fresh view of folk and tradition explores how mummersâ plays emerged in an 18th century theatrical environment of popular spouting clubs and private theatricals, yet quickly transformed into âtraditionaryâ drama with echoes of an ancient past. Harrop suggests that by the late 19th century the plays had been appropriated by antiquarians and folklorists, leaving mummerâs plays as a strangely separate and categorised form. This book considers how that happened, and the ways in which these late 19th century ideas were absorbed into the mummersâ plays, providing a new lease of life for them in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Ideal for anyone with a specialised interest in this unique form, Mummersâ Plays Revisited spans recent work in theatre history, performance studies and folklore to offer a comprehensive and engaging study.
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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.
