The History of Morris Dancing, 1438-1750 /

The History of Morris Dancing, 1438-1750 / / John Forrest.

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Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. Traditional scholarship on this custom has been based on the assumption that morris dancing is one of the pagan calendar rituals, a preconception held by many folklorists of the late nineteenth and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Forrest, John,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Early English Drama
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1. Theories of Origin
  • 2. The Contexts
  • 3. Earliest References
  • 4. Royal Court
  • 5. Urban Streets
  • 6. Church Property
  • 7. Church Proscription and Prosecution
  • 8. The Public Stage
  • 9. Rural Locations
  • 10. Assemblies and the Country Dance Hall
  • 11. Private Premises
  • 12. Endings
  • Appendix A: Methodological Issues. The Early Morris Database and Archive
  • Appendix B: Visitation Articles Banning Morris
  • Appendix C: Mr Isaacs Morris 1716
  • Appendix D. Extant Churchwardens’ Accounts
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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