Plays.
Found in 688 Collections and/or Records:
Newspaper cuttings collected by Joe Corrie concerning his own work., 1929-1931.
Also includes manuscript drafts of poems and songs, and fragments of plays.
`Notebook C` of George Crabbe., 1813-1824.
Title taken from the `Index of English Literary Manuscripts`, volume 3, part 1, page 295 (London : Mansell, 1986), which has a full description of the contents of the notebook.
Notebook containing manuscript of and notes for 'The Bluidy Hert: an interlude of drama, words and music' set in Renaissance Scotland by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1956.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Notebook containing much of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott-Moncrieff., 1951.
The beginning of Act I is not included and pages which probably contained the end of Act II and beginning of Act III are missing from MS.19629. This manuscript includes additional material for all three acts and a list of suggested titles. The manuscripts were written in 1951 (MS.19629, folio 20) and the play was first performed in 1953.
Notebook containing much of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott-Moncrieff., 1951.
The beginning of Act I is not included and pages which probably contained the end of Act II and beginning of Act III are missing from MS.19629. This manuscript includes additional material for all three acts and a list of suggested titles. The manuscripts were written in 1951 (MS.19629, folio 20) and the play was first performed in 1953.
Notebook containing the manuscript of a farce, 'Redwood', in two acts, with short stage instructions and occasional verses in the text.
Watermark evidence suggests a date for the volume circa 1795.
Notebook containing unpublished poetry of Thomas Stoddart., 1825-1826.
MSS.10292-10293 both contain versions of a drama, 'Orval' or 'Olthazzar'.
Notebook containing unpublished poetry of Thomas Stoddart., 1827.
MSS.10292-10293 both contain versions of a drama, 'Orval' or 'Olthazzar'.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
Notebook of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, originally labelled on the spine, 'Hocus Pocus, 1834-1837', containing epigrams, poems and unfinished verses., 1834-1837.
Notebook of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, originally labelled on the spine, 'My Barbarossa Succedaneum 1833-1834'., 1833-1834.
Notebook on Africa, and typescripts, of Naomi Mitchison.
Notebook, undated, containing a translation by Lady Anna Maria Elliot of a German play, 'The Birdcage'., Early 19th century.
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Notebook, undated, of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’, containing drafts of poems, fragments of essays, a scene from a play, and part of a story set in a Dutch prison., 3rd quarter of 20th century.
Notebooks containing much of ‘Fotheringhay’ by George Scott-Moncrieff., 1951.
The beginning of Act I is not included and pages which probably contained the end of Act II and beginning of Act III are missing from MS.19629. This manuscript includes additional material for all three acts and a list of suggested titles. The manuscripts were written in 1951 (MS.19629, folio 20) and the play was first performed in 1953.
Notebooks containing unpublished poetry of Thomas Stoddart., 1825-1827, undated.
MSS.10292-10293 both contain versions of a drama, 'Orval' or 'Olthazzar'.
Notes and typescript of 'Culloden', a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1962.
Sydney Goodsir Smith wrote a number of plays, of which the best known is ‘The Wallace’ (Edinburgh, 1960). Most of the manuscripts of his plays are unpublished and undated.
Notes chiefly on Balloon Tytler's life from published works, and manuscript of the play for radio by Robert McLellan., 1962.
Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.
Notes followed by a corrected typescript of 'The Jolly Beggars: a parable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., ?1960.
Sydney Goodsir Smith wrote a number of plays, of which the best known is ‘The Wallace’ (Edinburgh, 1960). Most of the manuscripts of his plays are unpublished and undated.
Notes for and corrected typescript, undated, of 'The Bull of Crete: a fable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith, also based on the Theseus and Ariadne legend., Mid 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
There are three title-pages (folios 37-39), one of which gives the author's name as John Abbot, and another gives alternative titles.
Notes, manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of Sydney Goodsir Smith of dramatisations of scenes from the ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ of John Wilson ('Christopher North'). , Mid 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Included is a radio version, with introductory dialogue (folio 5), and synopses and text of a version for television (folio 9).
Notes of the characters and major scenes, sketch map of Kinraddie, and a manuscript draft of some of the scenes by Bill Craig, of the BBC television production of 'Sunset song', by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1970.
Notes, synopses, manuscripts and typescripts of episode 1 of 'Kilellan' by Robert McLellan., 1960.
The contents are as follows. (i) Preliminary notes and synopses in manuscript and typescript (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript, corrected typescript and fair typescript of episode 1, 'Guests’ (folio 47).
Notes taken by a friend of Henry Mackenzie's on lectures on poetry given by Thomas Campbell to the Royal Institution., 1812.
At the end, inverted, is the beginning of a blank verse drama based on the theme of Antigone.
'O for yane and twenty Tam; a melodramatic pastoral' by George Wilson., 1852.
The melodrama is in prose but includes many songs.