Mummers' plays revisited / Peter Harrop

Author:: Harrop, Peter (Professor of Drama)
Published:: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Copyright Date:: ©2020
Physical Description:: x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: First visit: Introducing mummers' plays -- 1.A theatrical background -- Tracing the characters: quacks, fools, heroes and villains -- Settling on style: heroic drama, parody, burlesque and mock -- Reaching out: the spread of eighteenth-century theatre -- Fashions for performance: spouting and private theatricals -- 2.First sightings -- c.1746--1769: a Newcastle-upon-Tyne chapbook -- 1779: private theatricals at Revesby Abbey -- 1780s: the Truro Cordwainers Play -- 1780--1794: two manuscripts and a relick' -- 3.Turning theatre into folklore -- Tomes: Antiquitates Vulgares to Book of Days -- Notes and Queries 1: 1849---1864 -- Edward Tylor, James Frazer, Jane Harrison: an Edwardian alchemy -- Notes and Queries 2: 1865--1920 -- Revisiting: the last hundred years.

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ISBN:

9780815348375 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0815348371 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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