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:
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.
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.
Work by other authors collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1954, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26291-26294
Dates:
1921-1954, undated.
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.
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.
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Several of the poems appear to be unpublished.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.]
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.