Comedy.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Genre encompassing forms of theatre, literature, and improvisation with the basic objective to amuse, humor, and induce laughter. In general, it is often contrasted with tragedy and can be applied in the form of social criticism through satire and political or intellectual wit or applied in the form of pure spectacle through farce or burlesque.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Comedy, undated, titled “We’r All Beside Ourselves”., ?Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1581
Dates:
?Early 19th century.
Early plays of Robert McLellan., 1934-1950.
File
Identifier: MS.26331
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Corrected typescript and page-proofs of ‘Jeddart Justice: a Border comedy’ (Glasgow, 1934) (folio l); (ii) Corrected typescript of 'The Flight of Graidhne: a Celtic folk-tale in one act', ?1934 (folio 25); (iii) Typescripts, ?1935 and 1950, of ‘The Changeling’ (folio 49). This was first published in ‘Scottish one-act plays’, edited J M Reid (Edinburgh, 1935).
Dates:
1934-1950.
Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto., 1836-1880.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19457-19470
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Nina, Countess of Minto was the daughter of General Sir Thomas Hislop and granddaughter of Hugh Elliot. Lady Minto's papers reflect her wide ranging interests. She was the author of ‘A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot’, of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751-1806’, and of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807-14’. Her papers contain much material relating to these publications and also to her unpublished works....
Dates:
1836-1880.
'Old English Governess', a comedy in two acts written by Nina, Countess of Minto., 1836.
Item
Identifier: MS.19457
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Nina, Countess of Minto was the daughter of General Sir Thomas Hislop and granddaughter of Hugh Elliot. Lady Minto's papers reflect her wide ranging interests. She was the author of ‘A memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot’, of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751-1806’, and of ‘Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807-14’. Her papers contain much material relating to these publications and also to her unpublished works....
Dates:
1836.
Original typescript of Robert Kemp, "The Other Dear Charmer: a Comedy in Three Acts".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7272
Dates:
1957.
"The Assemblie or Scotch Reforma[ti]on, a Comedie, the Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged by the Authors", by Archibald Pitcairne.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9501
Scope and Contents
Apparently the earliest surviving manuscript of the text.
Dates:
1691.
Typescript copy of David Purves, "The Knicht o the Riddils: a Comedy in Three Acts".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9487
Dates:
1986.