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  • Ronald Frank Fletcher

    Fletcher   Martin  

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  • Fletcher H. McDowell MD 1923-2017

    Cedarbaum, Jesse M.   Aisen, Mindy   Volpe, Bruce T.  

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  • Patricia Duncan Fletcher

    Haddon, Janice   Hunter, J M  

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  • How Many Children Had Giles Fletcher the Elder?

    Munro   Lucy  

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  • Edward Walter Leslie Fletcher

    Dyet, John   Oliver, Victoria  

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  • R Fletcher Deane, 1938-2018

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  • Women Dancing the Morris in Fletcher and Shakespeare’s

    Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich  

    This essay analyses how the morris dance in The Two Noble Kinsmen – a crucial moment in the play’s treatment of gender and class rank – intervenes in seventeenth-century debates about the cultural function of morris dancing and especially of women’s roles within it. The essay considers what morris dancing might have signified at the play’s composition and earliest performances by analysing it alongside its courtly source, seventeenth-century pamphlets and dances inserted in other professional plays, and it examines how modern performances have remade the scene. While the play text empowers its female dancers, most twentieth- and twenty-first-century performances have limited their authority and made the dance into a scene that highlights the oppression of women. Two recent student performances in the USA and New Zealand have reframed the play’s morris as a dance that enables women to embrace playful bawdiness, seek reward, or resist social expectations.
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  • Did or Could Seabirds “Halo” Pitcairn Island for Fletcher Christian?

    Albert, Donald Patrick  

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  • Reginald Taylor and Lord Fletcher Essay Prize

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  • Edward Fletcher Cass

    Oates   Caroline  

    We were deeply saddened to hear of the death, on 17 September 2014, of Dr Eddie Cass, President of the Society for Folk Life Studies 2011–14, at the age of seventy-seven. He will be greatly missed by all whose lives were enriched by his warm kindness and humour, by his energetic participation in learned society activities, and by his lasting contributions to scholarship in many fields, including social history, folklore, and, especially, traditional drama. During his funeral in Manchester, the long, varied list of his occupations, interests, and achievements held surprises even for some who had known him for years — his expertise in bird ringing, for example, and in the history of playing cards, were news to me: ever modest, he was not one to brag. He had worked at a pharmacy after leaving school, then as a coal miner before beginning a career in banking, eventually becoming a manager at the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was actively involved with many cultural institutions of his native Manchester, including: The John Rylands Library; The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society; The National Museum of Labour History, which he assisted in its transition to become The People’s History Museum; The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, of which he was president from 2009 to 2012; and chairman of The Portico Library from 1988 to 1990, where he curated exhibitions on Lancashire industry and art, and on the cookery writer Elizabeth David. An avid bibliophile with wide-ranging interests in his collecting, he was eager to learn about everything. Ballad scholar David Atkinson remembers Eddie saying that, when he was a bank manager, how much he enjoyed visiting his business customers and learning about what they actually did, relishing the opportunity to find out about things he would otherwise not have known about […] He had an endlessly inquiring mind, which his varied career path had enabled him to develop in a way not available to most people. He was always interested in other people and their experiences. (pers. comm.) that, when he was a bank manager, how much he enjoyed visiting his business customers and learning about what they actually did, relishing the opportunity to find out about things he would otherwise not have known about […] He had an endlessly inquiring mind, which his varied career path had enabled him to develop in a way not available to most people. He was always interested in other people and their experiences. (pers. comm.) Retirement from the bank in 1993 enabled him to devote more time to scholarship, studying at Edge Hill University for a PhD awarded by Lancaster University in 1996, on The Cotton Factory Times, 1885– 1937: A Family Newspaper and the Lancashire Cotton Community, which he showed was more than just a trade union paper. Afterwards, he turned his attention to the history of nineteenth-century printed chapbooks and folk play texts, especially the ‘pace-egg’ plays, traditional mumming plays performed at Easter in Lancashire. He made contact with the leading folk play scholars Paul Smith, Mike Preston, Peter Millington, Steve Roud, and Ron Shuttleworth, who fed Eddie’s voracious appetite for ephemeral publications on the subject (he later repaid this generosity by supplying 147 texts for the Shuttleworth Collection). Before long, he was collaborating with them on publications about the folk play: with Preston and Smith, he compiled The English Mumming Play: An Introductory Bibliography (FLS Books, 2000); with Roud, Room, Room, Ladies and Gentlemen: an Introduction to the English Mummers’ Play (English Folk Dance and Song Society & Folklore Society, 2002); with Millington, he edited Folk Drama Studies Today (Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003). According to Roud, It was characteristic of Eddie that once something got his attention he went at it full-throttle and he was soon one of the leaders in Traditional Drama research, which was demonstrated by the Folk Drama Studies Today international conference in Sheffield in 2002 and other important gatherings which he was instrumental in getting off the ground, and the fact that he almost immediately cornered the market on information about the Pace Egg plays of the Lancashire region. […] his knowledge, energy, generosity and solid scholarship will certainly be sadly missed in the traditional drama world. (pers. comm.) It was characteristic of Eddie that once something got his attention he went at it full-throttle and he was soon one of the leaders in Traditional Drama research, which was demonstrated by the Folk Drama Studies Today international conference in Sheffield in 2002 and other important gatherings which he was instrumental in getting off the ground, and the fact that he almost immediately cornered the market on information about the Pace Egg plays of the Lancashire region. […] his knowledge, energy, generosity and solid scholarship will certainly be sadly missed in the traditional drama world. (pers. comm.) He became the expert on the pace-egg play, publishing two monographs on the subject: The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play: A Social History (FLS Books, 2001), and The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley (FLS Books, 2004). A bibliography of Eddie’s publications will be published in 2015 in Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. His wife Sheila, who is currently applying her own traditional craft skills to transform Eddie’s shirts into a quilt, told me ‘he was always interested in folklore — he was already when we first met in 1958’ (pers. comm.). Indeed, when he first saw a pace-egg play, the Midgley play, in 1968, he was familiar with the work of James Frazer and the Cambridge anthropologists; he did not see another pace-egg play until 1997, by which time he had ‘caught up with my reading on the play to learn that the folklore world had also moved on and that others saw the play as I was now seeing it as a social historian’ ( Lancashire Pace-Egg Play, p. xi). He contacted and became friends with pace-egg performers, and the Abram group named their annual award ‘the Eddie’ in his honour (< www-abram-morris-dancers.org.uk>). Mike Preston, who had never seen a pace-egg play until Eddie invited him to ‘go the rounds’, says that Characteristically, Eddie had scheduled what we were to see. He knew the performers, and so we saw them perform, and we ate and drank with them afterwards. Eddie also sold his book to those who did not know of that Folklore Society publication. Eddie was always businesslike. (pers. comm.) Characteristically, Eddie had scheduled what we were to see. He knew the performers, and so we saw them perform, and we ate and drank with them afterwards. Eddie also sold his book to those who did not know of that Folklore Society publication. Eddie was always businesslike. (pers. comm.) From 1997 to 2004, Eddie was a research fellow at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT, now closed), Sheffield University. He worked initially on the history of nineteenth-century folk play chapbooks and the pace-egg plays, and from 2001 as part of the team led by folklorist Julia Bishop to catalogue, edit, and publish the 1930s manuscripts and recordings of James Madison Carpenter (held at the Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture), which includes by far the largest collection of mumming plays made by a single individual. He became ‘something of a beloved uncle within the team, as well as contributing his insights and expertise to the folk play aspects of the work’ (Julia Bishop, pers. comm.). Another member of the team, ethnomusicologist Elaine Bradtke, recalled the day they had to present identification documents to Sheffield University for the project: ‘it’s the first time I’ve ever needed a passport to visit Yorkshire’, he said. In 2004, he became a research fellow at The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, where the Carpenter project is based. The folk play volume he worked on will be the first in the series of books drawn from the Carpenter collection and is due to be published in 2016; it is very sad that he did not live to see it in print. From the late 1990s, he became more actively involved with the running of several learned societies, including the SFLS. In a letter to Steph Mastoris in 2012, Eddie wrote that he attended his first SFLS conference in 1998 in Cardiff, attracted there because ‘I had spent eight years as a coal miner and a folk conference with coal mining as one of its themes appealed to me’. He remarked on the infectious warmth with which he was greeted as a newcomer to SFLS conferences, and that the warmth spread to his wife so that when [the membership secretary] was looking for new members at the 2008 conference in Killarney ‘Sheila was an easy catch’. He served as a member of the Council from 2002 to 2003, as Honorary Secretary from 2003 to 2008, as Vice President from 2008 to 2011, and finally as President from 2011 until his death three days after his term ended in 2014. The major event of his presidency was the 2012 conference at The People’s History Museum, Manchester, which he organized with his customary efficiency and attention to detail, and hosted with his habitual generosity and bonhomie. His presidential address at the 2013 conference at Llandrindod Wells was about George Baker, illustrator for James Madison Carpenter ( Folk Life (2014)). In his usual outgoing style, Eddie had traced the illustrator’s descendants and invited them to the conference, where he presented them with a framed copy of one of Baker’s illustrations. Linda Ballard describes him as ‘kind, supportive and very encouraging, greatly beloved in the Society’, ‘a very kindly, big brother figure, always effective, very charismatic, a gifted and insightful scholar who was a major figure, quietly authoritative without ever being overbearing’ — ‘as secretary […] he firmly but very gently introduced some efficiencies to the Society’ (pers. comm.). For Steph Mastoris, he was a ‘hands-on’ president, whose greatest legacies to the SFLS include overseeing the agreement to publish Folk Life online and facilitating closer links with The Folklore Society (pers. comm.). He had been a member of The Folklore Society since the early 1980s but became more closely involved in its activities from the late 1990s. He joined the Committee in 2001, served as Editor of FLS Books from 2003 to 2007, as President from 2008 to 2011, and was still Vice President at the time of his death. His three presidential addresses were on the major folk-play collectors Alex Helm, Thomas Fairman Ordish, and James Madison Carpenter (published in Folklore (2010, 2011, and 2012)). Shortly before he died, Eddie was awarded the society’s Coote Lake Medal for outstanding research in folklore: Sheila said he was ‘really chuffed’. John Widdowson, former Folklore Society president, remarked that Eddie was ‘an ideal person for society committees’ — ‘self-effacing, never put himself forward for nomination yet was invited to be president of many organizations’, where he would ‘get stuck in’ whole-heartedly (pers. comm.). I myself can say that he was a model employer: always interested and considerate, gentle, and polite even when conveying criticism; his cheery ‘helloooo’ and twinkly smile brought brightness and warmth into our office. David Atkinson nicely summed up the feelings of many I have talked with about Eddie: ‘It was a privilege to know him and we shall not look upon his like again’.
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  • John Fletcher Moulton and the transforming aftermath of the chemists’ war

    Peter Reed  

    In 1917, Richard Pilcher, registrar and secretary of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, used the phrase, ‘the chemists’ war’ to describe the First World War [R. B. Pilcher, ‘Chemistry in Wartime’, The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 9 (1917), 4.]. Pitcher’s phrase was to prove prophetic in another way because the war would transform dramatically the working and organisation of the British chemical industry. With his background in mathematics, the legal profession and as an MP, John Fletcher Moulton (Baron Moulton of Bank; 1844–1921) was an unlikely person to play a crucial role in both the war effort and the post-war transformation, but the analytical ability and organisational skills developed from his patent court cases proved more important than scientific and technical knowledge.
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  • John Fletcher Moulton and the transforming aftermath of the chemists’ war

    Reed   Peter  

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  • Pivoting towards Empiricism: A Response to Fletcher and Monterosso

    Keen Suzanne  

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  • UNDOING WONDER: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER SECULARIZE CERVANTES

    Hardman   J.  

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  • Reginald Taylor and Lord Fletcher Essay Prize

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  • The use of Fletcher and Massinger on the late Restoration stage

    MacNeill   Máire  

    The late Restoration stage saw a continuation in the popularity of the works of Fletcher and Massinger. However, rather than straightforward productions, these pieces were adapted into such works as Sir John Vanbrugh's The Pilgrim and Colley Cibber's Love Makes a Man. In this article I compare the two works and discuss the method of adaptation in order to make each piece relevant to contemporary society. I focus on each play's reformation of a violent bravo character, demonstrating why these scenes were particularly suited to a late Restoration audience, and conclude by showing what both playwrights hoped to achieve in their adaptations.
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