NEWS,NOTES & QUERIES.
As must be apparent, I am quite new to websites, but it seems that it would be useful to have a place where anyone could post information or queries. The site is not directly interactive, so items and replies should be sent to me by e-mail at mumminguk@mail.com
Unless requested otherwise, I shall publish replies and include enquirers e-addresses so that contact can be made direct (and copied to me, of course) If requested, I am happy to act as a 'filter' and Forward replies in confidence.
If there is any demand, I can start a 'Group' and send out contributions to this page (if any) as soon as they come in, directly to all names in the group
Here's the first one-
12.2000.
I appreciate that others probably do not share my interest in St George, but there is a new book just out called St George: Hero Martyr & Myth by Samantha RICHES, (Sutton Publishing) £20 / $29.95. I got mine from Amazon and saved £1.25. Mumming only gets a passing mention, but it is a very nice and scholarly book. A4-ish hardback, with plenty of illustrations. 235pp, although the text is reduced by each page having a very wide margin. RKS.
Have you/do you know of, any
Texts of collated or written plays. No-one else that I know of has thought these to be worth collecting - I have over 160. Ensure the immortality of your masterpiece by sending me a copy.
Unpublished Works - papers, essays, articles, theses. Again, these do not seem to have been collected, yet often much thought has gone into them and many contain interesting and important material. Often papers are read, but never get published although a written script exists. Why let such useful effort pass into oblivion? I have over 80 items varying from 10-page essays to Doctoral theses with many hundreds of pages.
Mumming in works of fiction, conventional drama, etc.
Obscure published material. Articles in local journals & magazines, leaflets, cartoons, Christmas cards, etc
Items known to have existed, but so far unlocated, include-
The Cheshire "St George Play" J K HUDSON. leaflet 7+pp. n.d. probably 1923-27.
There is a Xerox of this, but an original has yet to be found.
Obscure locations of material- single items, such as a text of a local play, or collections of papers and letters.
There are a number of past scholars who are known to have had an interest in Mumming but whose papers seem to be 'lost'.
These include-
E H Binney. A schoolmaster in Oxford, d.1930. Some of his material is in the Percy Manning Coll at the Bodleian, but the rest is unlocated.
Tom Miners. (Cornwall)
William E Mitchell. Co-author of The Play of St George, the Knights & the Dragon. Papers last known of in private hands in Rochdale.
Thurstan Peter. Some papers in Cornwall, but not a play chapbook that he is known to have possessed.
William Sandys. A Cornishman who lived & died in London, where his papers were sold. Some are known in Cornwall, but his play material is unlocated.