Plays.
Found in 468 Collections and/or Records:
Material of and concerning Nancy Brysson Morrison relating to the play 'The gowk storm'., 1948.
The contents are as follows. (i) Heavily corrected typescript, [?1948], of 'The gowk storm', a play in three acts by Nancy Brysson Morrison and Dorothy Black (folio 1). This is a dramatised version of N Brysson Morrison's novel of the same name, published in 1933. (ii) Photographs of the production by Dundee Repertory Theatre, 1948 (folio 34).
Material of Nancy Brysson Morrison for a play on Edward Irving., 1947-1948, undated.
Notes for and some manuscripts of Nancy Brysson Morrison's books and shorter works.
‘Measure for measure’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1922), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1922.
‘Merchant of Venice’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1926), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1926.
‘Merry wives of Windsor’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1924), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1924.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
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Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Microfilm of autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine., Early 19th century.
Microfilm of four ledgers of Alasdair Gray., 1945-2008.
"Midsummer night's dream" by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1924), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1924.
Miscellaneous drafts and fragments of dramatic pieces by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1939-1961, undated.
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).
Miscellaneous literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto., Mid 19th century-Late 19th century.
The papers include 'The Donkey', a play written by the Countess in 1864 (folio 1).
Miscellaneous manuscript volumes, received bound., 1685-mid 20th century, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of John Pinkerton., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
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).
Miscellaneous papers of Rose Ethel Bassin, chiefly typescript relating to Gaelic concerts, plays and other writing., 1929-1952.
‘Much ado about nothing’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1923), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1923.
'Mum and Sally: a thirty minute play for television' by Robert McLellan., 1965.
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).
'My dear, dear sister!', a play by Robert McLellan about William and Dorothy Wordsworth, originally entitled 'Dorothy'., 1970, undated.
The play was completed in 1970.
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.
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.