Plays.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic compositions, arranged for enactment, as by actors on a stage.
Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:
Background notes, preliminary sketches, and the manuscript of the pageant, including a few sheets of heavily corrected typescript by Robert McLellan., 1972.
File
Identifier: MS.26386
Dates:
1972.
'Balloon Tytler', a play for radio by Robert McLellan, produced in 1962., 1962.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26365-26366
Booklets and plays., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10903/64
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Records and minute books of World Mission and Unity Department, Church of Scotland.
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Printed material of the World Mission and Unity Department, containing plays.
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Plays and related papers of the World Mission and Unity Department.
'Border-Feud, a tragedy in five acts’ by David Murray., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.897
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning literary matters, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Bound copy of the acting text of "The Satire of the Three Estates", prepared by Robert Kemp for production at the Edinburgh International Festival.
File
Identifier: Acc.10112
Scope and Contents
With stage photographs, sketches and signatures of the actors, musicians and singers.
Dates:
1948.
Broadcast script 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.
Item
Identifier: MS.26396
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
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Broadcasts written for radio and television by Robert McLellan.
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Dramatisation in four parts by Robert McLellan of Sir Walter Scott's novel, 'Waverley', broadcast in the series 'This is my country'.
Broadcast script of 'The Hungry Forties' by Robert McLellan, in the series 'This is my country'., 1963.
Item
Identifier: MS.26402
Carbon copy of a later typescript with a few manuscript corrections of the play 'The Laughter of the Gods: a myth in five scenes' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [Circa 1945.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26129
Dates:
[Circa 1945.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).
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Plays of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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Play by Sydney Goodsir Smith titled 'The Laughter of the Gods: a myth in five scenes' based on the legend of Theseus and Ariadne.
Carbon copy of part of the typescript, 1952, of 'Colickie Meg', 1949-1950, by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [1952, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26168
Dates:
[1952, or after.]
Carbon copy of the original typescript of 'The Wallace', with manuscripts corrections by the author, Sydney Goodsir Smith and the editor, R L C Lorimer., 1959.
Item
Identifier: MS.26172
Dates:
1959.
Carbon typescript of 'Before the Wedding: a play in a prologue and three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [Before 1970.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26944
Scope and Contents
The original title, 'A Man of Steel', has been corrected in manuscript.
Dates:
[Before 1970.]
Carbon typescript of 'The Fiddler calls the Tune: a comedy in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [1945.]
File
Identifier: MS.26948
Scope and Contents
There are a few manuscript corrections, and two newspaper cuttings (folio 83) concerning the first production of the play in Edinburgh.
Dates:
[1945.]
Carbon typescript of 'The Mystery of Gorbals Terrace', a four act play by Alexander McArthur (1901-1947).
Item
Identifier: MS.26487
Scope and Contents
The play was originally written in 1944-1945. This typescript contains manuscript corrections by the author, Alexander McArthur and a number of notes stating that a copy sent to Unity Theatre, Glasgow, was not returned, and implying that it was used by Robert McLeish as a source for his 'Gorbals Story'.
Dates:
1946.
Carbon typescript of the revised edition of ‘Jamie the saxt’ by Robert McLellan., [1937, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26337
Carbon typescript, undated, of 'Invitation to Hell: a play in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.26953
Scope and Contents
The play was originally entitled 'One Night of Hell'.
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Carbon typescripts of 'Blood upon the Rose: a play in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1956.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26946
'Clubfuit', by Tom Scott, and two fragments of plays., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11750/87
Dates:
Undated.
‘Comedy of errors’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1962), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1962.
Item
Identifier: MS.14381
Dates:
1962.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.
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Papers concerning the literary and scholarly activities and interests of John Dover Wilson.
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Publications, chiefly written or edited by John Dover Wilson, with manuscript additions chiefly by Dover Wilson.
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New Cambridge edition of nineteen of William Shakespeare's plays, with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson on the interleaved pages.
Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.14
Scope and Contents
The commonplace books were bound together but not in chronological order. Some are made up from old legal style books (folios 161, 197, 248, 331, 479), one (circa 1697) belonging to a James Strachan (folio 199). The contents of the volumes are predominantly Episcopalian and Jacobite in sympathies, covering a range of theology, drama, poetry, polemic and ephemera. There is a copy of Dr Archibald Pitcairne`s Anti-Presbyterian play ‘The Assembly’ (folio 162) and also several pages of elaborate...
Dates:
1705, and before-1724.
Copy, 19th century, of a comedy in verse, ‘The Pedlers Prophecie’, which was published anonymously in 1595 (printed by Thomas Creede, London), but has been attributed to Robert Wilson the actor and playwright.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.46
Scope and Contents
Wilson was also the author of ‘The Coblers Prophesie’ which appeared in 1594.
Dates:
1595.
Copy of William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI, Part III" (1936), with marginalia of J Dover Wilson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7527
Dates:
1936.
Corrected duplicated copy of the final typescript of ‘The Wallace’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with an explanatory note by R L C Lorimer., 1959.
File
Identifier: MS.26176
Dates:
1959.
Corrected galley-proofs and a printed copy of ‘Toom Byres’ (Glasgow, 1936) by Robert McLellan., 1936.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26333-26334
Corrected galley-proofs of 'Toom Byres' by Robert McLellan., 1936.
File
Identifier: MS.26333