Add this copy of The English Mummers and Their Plays: Traces of Ancient to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Appledore Books, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waccabuc, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. A handsome copy of the 1970 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine (small, tasteful bookplate at the front pastedown) in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of rubbing to the front panel. Octavo, 201 pgs.
Add this copy of The English Mummers and Their Plays. Traces of Ancient to cart. $91.00, good condition, Sold by Expatriate Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Svendborg, DENMARK, published 1970 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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13pp photoplates. 22 pages bear pencilled underlining &/or marginal marks, Good+., 22x14cm, xiii, 201 pp, Binding corner bumped. Name inked on flyleaf. In a heavily rubbed, soiled & torn dustwrapper. Contents: Investigating the Action: The Three Types; The Scholarship; The Play as an Action; The Problem of History; Performing the Action: The Visit; The Stage & the Circle; The Players; The Dress; The Acting Style; The Hero-Combat: The Netley Abbey Mummers' Play-A Representative Text; The Combat; The Lament; The Cure; The Quete: The Procession of Characters; The Entertainment & Collection; The Quete & the Komos; The Sword Play: The Greatham Text & the Sequence of Action; The Earsdon Dance: The Old Version & the Buophonia; The Modern Version & an Insight into its Development; The Ampleforth Play & the Problems of Bowdlerization; The Ampleforth Play & Literary Influences; The Common Action: The Lock; The Development of the Dance; The Wooing Ceremony: The Bassingham Play; Ritual Origins & Continental Analogues; The Corn Spirit; The Sacred Wedding; The Later Development; The Recruiting Sergeant; Traces of Ancient Mystery: Myth, Ritual, and Drama; The Sword Ceremony: Totemism; The Wooing Ceremony: The Fertility Daimon; The Hero-Combat: St. George as Hero-Daimon; The Nature of the Ceremony Today; Appendices: The Netley Abbey Mummers' Play; The Greatham Sword Dance Play; The Bassingham Men's Play 1823 Xmas; Excursus on the Entertainment at Revesby; Excursus on the Papa Stour Text; Lines 109-131 of 'The Alcestis'; The Rumanian Kalusari Play; Extract of a Letter from E.M. Leather; An Account of the Mummers, 1793. Notes; Bibliography.