Plays.
Found in 685 Collections and/or Records:
Literary papers of Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing plays, scripts and short stories., 1933-1961, undated.
Literary papers of Ronald Frame.
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, novels, plays, and works for radio.
Literary papers of Stewart Conn.
Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.
Literary papers of the poet Bessie MacArthur (1889-1983).
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Literary typescripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Includes a play, article and poetry.
Literary work and travel journals of Charles Murray., 1888-1941, undated.
Charles Murray's literary output was almost entirely poetic, and he was widely known as 'Hamewith', the title of his most popular collection, first published in 1900. These papers reflect both his literary work and his early travels in South Africa.
Literary works of Margaret Hamilton Noël-Paton (born 1896), grand-daughter of Sir Joseph Noël-Paton, the painter.
"Los Emigrados de Encocia", a play in Spanish, possibly from Mexico.
"Love's labours lost" by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1923), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1923.
‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1947), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1947.
Manuscript and corrected typescript of the play "The Hart of Scotland" (later retitled "The Bruce") by Robert Simpson Silver.
With typescript modifications and new scenes and a printed copy of the text.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems by Edwin Muir., 1942-1959, undated.
The single poems are arranged in the order in which they appear in Edwin Muir's ‘Collected poems’, 1963. They are followed (folio 80) by 'A Righteous Man' and "The Breaking' (published in the ‘Times Literary Supplement’, 21 December 1979, page 158), ‘The Christmas' (from ‘One foot in eden’, 1956), and pages containing more than one poem and drafts of unidentified works. Finally there is the corrected typescript of 'The Return', a verse drama on the return of Odysseus (folio 99).
Manuscript and typescript drafts and notes of the synopsis for a play about Gilbert and Sullivan, by Janet Paisley., Undated.
This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of plays of William McArthur., 1948-1954, undated.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of the stage production and published version of "Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off", by Liz Lochhead.
Manuscript and typescripts of 'Blood upon the Rose: a play in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1956.]
George Scott-Moncrieff wrote a number of plays, of which only ‘Fotheringhay’ was published (Edinburgh, 1953), although others were performed on the stage or broadcast. Most of the surviving typescripts are undated.
Manuscript and typescripts of ‘The Flouers o Edinburgh’ by Robert McLellan., [1947, or before.]-1951.
The play was first produced in 1947.
Manuscript draft of 'A spell for green corn' by George Mackay Brown.
Manuscript drafts and notes for play 'Warrender Chase'., 1952.
Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, short stories and a novel, "Reality and Dreams".
Manuscript, followed by notes and drafts 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.
Manuscript index to (MS.27297), the typescript, undated, titled 'Chronological history of Edward Irving' and notes, undated, on the characters extracted from published sources of Nancy Brysson Morrison., [1947-1948.]
Notes for and some manuscripts of Nancy Brysson Morrison's books and shorter works.
Manuscript of a dramatization in four parts by Robert McLellan of Sir Walter Scott's novel, ‘Waverley’, broadcast in the series 'This is my country'., 1957.
Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.