print email comment close English Folk Play Research Home Page URL: http://www.folkplay.info/ Description: This extensive resource focuses on English folk plays, also called Mummers' Plays, that are "short traditional verse sketches performed at Christmas, Easter and other annual festivals and taken round pubs and private houses." Find background, news, scheduled performances, research indexes and catalogs, scripts, reading lists, related links, and more. Searchable. From the Traditional Drama Research Group at the University of Sheffield, England. Author: Millington, Peter Publisher: Traditional Drama Research Group Library of Congress Subject Headings: Folk drama, English Mumming plays LII Database Information: Record 7505 created by Karen Schneider on 12/15/2003 Last modification on 01/29/2004 Published: 12/15/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7505