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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 220 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript draft of ‘The will’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with some revisions in Barrie's hand, and with others (in blue pencil, mostly cuts) that may be in another hand.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6644
Scope and Contents

This version is very close to that printed in ‘The definitive edition of the plays of J M Barrie’, page 809, but with fewer details of setting and stage direction. Corrections made in the draft have been incorporated into the printed text.

Dates: [Circa 1913.]

Typescript drafts of act 1 of ‘Shall we join the ladies?’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6625-6635
Scope and Contents The drafts represent six, rather late, stages of composition. They are not entirely consecutive and would seem to be the remains of a total of nine immediately preceding the published text. MSS.6625 and 6626 represent the first of these stages; MSS.6627 and 6628 the second; MSS.6629 and 6630 the fourth; MSS.6631, 6632, and 6633 the fifth; MS.6634 the sixth; and MS.6635 the eighth. A stemma, with explanatory notes, has been inserted in MS.6625. The drafts are of interest as showing Sir James...
Dates: [Circa 1921.]

Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.

Dates: 1978 and undated.

Typescript drafts of ‘The twelve-pound look’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6642-6643
Scope and Contents Neither typescript draft is a carbon, and there is no direct relationship between them. MS.6642 appears to be the earlier: the names of the characters differ from those given in MS.6643 and in the printed version as found in ‘The definitive edition of the plays of J M Barrie', page 761, so that 'Sir James Ings' is equivalent to 'Sir Harry Sims', 'Lady Ings' to 'Lady Sims', 'Marion' to 'Kate', and 'Findlater' to 'Tombes'. There must have been at least one corrected version beween MS.6642 and...
Dates: [Circa 1910.]

Typescript drafts, undated, of ‘Old friends’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the hand of the author.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6636-6641
Scope and Contents

Notes discussing the relationship of the drafts in greater detail, and a provisional stemma, will be found inside the front cover of MS.6636.

Dates: [1910, or before.]

Typescript, undated, of 'Tarravore', a play in three acts by James Shaw Grant (born 1910), director of Grampian Television and author of books on the Highlands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26489
Scope and Contents

The typescript is annotated for a production by the Park Theatre, Glasgow.

Dates: Mid 20th century.

Typescript, undated, of ‘The finding of the sword’, a play by Sibell Lilian Blunt Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5069
Scope and Contents

The play does not seem to have been produced or published.

Dates: [1905, or after.]