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Folk drama


  • Amateur dramas based on folk traditions and local history.

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    • Folk drama

  • Variants

    • Folk plays
    • Folkdrama
    • Folkplays

  • Broader Terms

    • Drama
    • Folk literature

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  • Sources

    • found: LCSH, Oct. 22, 2014(Folk drama. UF Folk plays)
    • found: Merriam-Webster online, Nov. 2, 2012(Folklore definition--originating or traditional with the common people of a country or region and typically reflecting their lifestyle)
    • found: The Oxford companion to the theatre, 1983(Folk play. Under this heading may be grouped the rough-and-ready dramatic entertainments given at village festivals by the villagers themselves; derived from the dramatic tendencies inherent in primitive folk festivals, and were given on May-day, at Harvest Home, or at Christmas, when to the central theme of a symbolic death and resurrection, which comes from remotest antiquity, were added the names and feats of local worthies)
    • found: OCLC, Apr. 19, 2013(titles: Mexican folk plays; New anthology of contemporary Austrian folk plays; Epic and folk plays of the Yiddish theatre; An interim list of Nottinghamshire folk plays and related customs; Home to Canaan : a Negro folkplay from Bible narrative; Spanish folkplays of the San Juan Basin; Folkplays of Dingxian; European lyric folkdrama; Javanese folkdrama and social change; Origin, definition & introduction of Bengal's folkdrama; Cheshire folk drama; Efik folk drama; The folk drama of Ceylon; Introduction to Korean folk drama; Glimpses of Bengali folk dramas; Puppetry and folk dramas, for non-formal education; Six Nuevomexicano folk dramas for Advent season)
    • found: The Columbia encyclopedia, 2013, via Credo Reference online, March 20, 2015:(folk drama, noncommercial, generally rural theater and pageantry based on folk traditions and local history. This form of drama, common throughout the world, declined in popularity in the West (although not in Asia) with the advent of printing, general literacy, and the increasing emphasis on the individual contribution to the drama of playwright, director, and actors. The mid-19th cent. witnessed a revival of folk drama in the United States and parts of Western Europe; regional history plays)

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    • Amateur dramas based on folk traditions and local history.

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    • 2014-12-01: new
    • 2015-12-14: revised

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