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Dr Eddie Cass

NEH & BAc Research Fellow

My folklore interests centre on the performance of folk customs, and, in particular, the folk plays of Britain. I have organised two conferences on folk drama at Sheffield University; the second was held in 2002 and the papers from this conference were published as Folk Drama Studies Today.

My current research work is focused on the three hundred British folk plays in the James Madison Carpenter Collection and I am one of the team working at the Elphinstone Institute towards the publication of a critical edition of the collection, which is held in the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress, Washington. The project is funded by the British Academy and the National Endowment for the Humanities under the auspices of the American Folklore Society, and in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Principal Publications 2000-2007

'The Printing History of the Peace Egg Chapbooks', Papers of British Book Trade Seminar, 2005 (British Library, forthcoming)
'The English Folk Play in the Second Folk Revival: Some Cross Community Considerations', in Anthony D. Buckley et al, Border-Crossing: Mumming in Cross-Border and Cross-Community Contexts (Dundalk: Dundalk Press, 2007)
'The Lower Heyford Folk Play: James Madison Carpenter's Use of Dialect in his Cylinder Transcriptions', Folk Life, 45 (2007), 40-48
The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley (London: The Folklore Society, 2004)
with Peter Millington, eds, Folk Drama Studies Today: The International Traditional Drama Conference 2002 (Sheffield: Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003)
with M.J. Preston and Paul Smith, 'The Peace Egg Book: An Anglo-Irish chapbook connection discovered', Folklore, 114, no. 1 (2003), 29-52
'J.M. Carpenter, Ethel Rudkin and the Plough Plays of Lincolnshire', Folk Life, 41 (2003) 96-107
with Julia Bishop et al, The James Madison Carpenter Online Catalogue at the University of Sheffield
with Steve Roud, 'Room, room, ladies and gentlemen': An Introduction to the English Mumming Play (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society and the Folklore Society), 2002
with Morris Garratt, eds, Printing and the Book in Manchester (Manchester, Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 2001)
The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play: A Social History (London: Folklore Society, [2001])
with M. J. Preston and Paul Smith, The English Mumming Play. An Introductory Bibliography (London: Folklore Society, 2000)

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