Plays.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic compositions, arranged for enactment, as by actors on a stage.
Found in 688 Collections and/or Records:
‘Merchant of Venice’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1926), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1926.
Item
Identifier: MS.14391
Dates:
1926.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
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New Cambridge edition of nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays, with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson on the interleaved pages.
‘Merry wives of Windsor’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1924), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1924.
Item
Identifier: MS.14392
Dates:
1924.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
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New Cambridge edition of nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays, with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson on the interleaved pages.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.112-116
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.112
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.113
Scope and Contents
Adv.MS.5.1.18.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.114
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.115
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.116
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Microfilm of four ledgers of Alasdair Gray., 1945-2008.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2062
Microfilm of interleaved copy of William Shakespeare, ‘Timon of Athens’ (1851), with annotations by George MacDonald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2024
Dates:
1851.
Microfilm of manuscripts containing the six plays of Terence.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.789
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript written in Italy in 1438, containing the six plays of Terence (Adv.MS.18.2.10);
Manuscript, 12th century, of plays by Terence, and part of a grammatical treatise on ‘exigentia’ (Adv.MS.18.7.2).
Dates:
12th century, 1438.
Microfilm of plays, 1438, of Terence; and, various works of Ovid written by Nicolas Crabel, 1448-1449.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.424
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Various works of Ovid, written by Nicolas Crabel at Padua in 1448-1449, with additions of the later 15th and 16th centuries (Adv.MS.18.2.9).
Manuscript written in Italy in 1438, containing the six plays of Terence (Adv.MS.18.2.10);
Dates:
1438, 1448-1449.
Microfilm of two entire rough proofs of ‘Geneva’ by Bernard Shaw.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.821
Dates:
[1938, or before.]
Microfilm of two plays of Compton Mackenzie: ‘Wives without husbands’; ‘The skylight’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.891
Dates:
1941.
"Midsummer night's dream" by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1924), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1924.
Item
Identifier: MS.14393
Dates:
1924.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
/
Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
/
Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
/
New Cambridge edition of nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays, with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson on the interleaved pages.
Miscellaneous drafts and fragments of dramatic pieces by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1939-1961, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26141
Scope and Contents
Included are notes and verse for 'Protest: an oratorio', 1939 (folio l), an early version of the beginning of ‘The Stick-up’, broadcast in 1961 and published in ‘Fifteen poems and a play’ (Edinburgh, 1969), pages 1-33 (folio 59), and notes for and the typescript of a film script, 'The Shepherd of Ettrick', undated (folio 74).
Dates:
1939-1961, undated.
Miscellaneous literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto., Mid 19th century-Late 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.19461
Scope and Contents
The papers include 'The Donkey', a play written by the Countess in 1864 (folio 1).
Dates:
Mid 19th century-Late 19th century.
Miscellaneous manuscript volumes, received bound., 1685-mid 20th century, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14797-14809
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1685-mid 20th century, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of John Pinkerton., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1712
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘The Heiress of Strathern’, with R P Gillies’s epilogue and an acting copy with stage directions (folio i); plans for a narrative poem (Ratho, King of the Orkneys) (folio 120), a ‘Gothic Tale’ (Dornadilla), with the commencement (folio 123), and ‘The British Princess’, a tragedy (folio 150); ‘An Easy Introduction to the Greek Language’, 1786, unfinished (folio 152); ‘Amoenitates Historicae’ (folio 168).
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Miscellaneous papers of Rose Ethel Bassin, chiefly typescript relating to Gaelic concerts, plays and other writing., 1929-1952.
File
Identifier: MS.14927
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Programmes and other material relating to concerts organised or attended by Rose Ethel Bassin, 1931-1967 (folios 1-80);Plays (folios 81-143):(ii) Gaelic play: ‘Coiseachd air na Speuran’ (circa 1943) (folio 81);(iii) Gaelic play: ‘An Gruagach Ban, Mac Righ Eireann’ (folio 104);(iv) English play: ‘At a Lewis Fishing’ (Vancouver, 1929) (folio 115);(v) English play: “The Old Men’s Wauling”...
Dates:
1929-1952.
‘Much ado about nothing’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1923), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1923.
Item
Identifier: MS.14394
Dates:
1923.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
/
Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
/
Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
/
New Cambridge edition of nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays, with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson on the interleaved pages.
'Mum and Sally: a thirty minute play for television' by Robert McLellan., 1965.
Item
Identifier: MS.26375
Scope and Contents
Contains a fragment of the original manuscript (folio l), a heavily corrected typescript (folio 4), a typescript with a few manuscript corrections (folio l9), and the final typescript (folio 37).
Dates:
1965.
'My dear, dear sister!', a play by Robert McLellan about William and Dorothy Wordsworth, originally entitled 'Dorothy'., 1970, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26381-26385
Scope and Contents
The play was completed in 1970.
Dates:
1970, undated.
New Cambridge edition of nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays, with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson on the interleaved pages., 1921-1962.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14379-14400
Dates:
1921-1962.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
/
Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
/
Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.