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Plays.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic compositions, arranged for enactment, as by actors on a stage.

Found in 685 Collections and/or Records:

Various compositions of George Douglas Brown., 1897-1898, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8180
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, in the author's hand, of 'Honest Jack' by George Douglas Brown, a one-act farce. Brown's only experiment in play-writing was never published. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript, with a few corrections in Brown's hand, of two chapters of "The doctor's stories". Intended as an autobiography of a doctor, the work remained unpublished. The date of composition is probably 1898. See James Veitch, 'George Douglas Brown', page 110. (Folio...
Dates: 1897-1898, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown. / Various manuscripts of George Douglas Brown bound together.

Various manuscripts of George Douglas Brown bound together., 1897-[1901, or after], ?1923.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8177-8180
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Many of the drafts are early compositions, but they include all that apparently now exists of 'The House with the Green Shutters', published in 1901 (MSS.8171-8172), and two items not by George Douglas Brown (MS.8178).

MSS.8171-8176 are written in school notebooks.

Dates: 1897-[1901, or after], ?1923.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.

Verse drama, titled 'The White Cat'., [Circa 1835.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.12835
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: [Circa 1835.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Literary papers, music and drawings of various members of the Elliot of Minto family. / Papers of the Earls of Minto and other members of the family.

Verse, undated, by John Stuart Blackie., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2651
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: sonnets (folio 1), songs (folio 42), an epic on Jack the Giant-killer, in Greek and English (folio 80), fragments of a drama on Prometheus (folio 132), and miscellaneous (folio 148).

Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Professor John Stuart Blackie and his family.

Videocassette recordings, made by Freeway Films, chiefly of television versions of plays by John McGrath.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12562/1-7
Scope and Contents

Freeway Films was John McGrath's own production company.

Dates: Circa 1984-1991.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Work by other authors collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1954, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26291-26294
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1921-1954, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).

Working scripts collected by Marillyn Gray, mostly relating to her career at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh., 1944-1997.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12942/1-85
Scope and Contents

Also includes scripts relating to Marillyn Gray's work at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.

Dates: 1944-1997.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Scripts, programmes and other papers of Marillyn Gray, Scottish actor and theatre director, mostly relating to the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Writings of David Gray, chiefly in manuscript, but some in print, including poems, part of an attempt at drama, essays, and miscellaneous notes., [1861, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8466
Scope and Contents

Several of the poems appear to be unpublished.

Dates: [1861, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.

Writings of James Hogg, with letters of Hogg's children to Robert Blackie., [1827, or after]-1873, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1869
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'The bush aboon Traquair; or, the rural philosophers. A pastoral drama', partly in James Hogg's hand, on paper watermarked 1827. Printed in ‘Tales and sketches’, volume ii. Pages are missing after folio 40. For a typed transcript see MS.6139. (Folio 1.)(ii) Various poems of Hogg, in another hand, showing some variations from the printed versions, on paper watermarked 1834, 1837. (Folio 53.)(iii) Letters of Hogg's children to...
Dates: [1827, or after]-1873, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Writings of James Hogg, published by Blackie & Son in 1837, with biographical material regarding his family, supplied in connection with the Centenary Edition of his 'Works', published by the same firm in 1873.

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