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:
Literary papers of Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing plays, scripts and short stories., 1933-1961, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8802/10-109
Literary papers of Ronald Frame.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12045
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of short stories, novels, plays, and works for radio.
Dates:
circa 1980-2000.
Literary papers of Stewart Conn.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12098/1-57
Scope and Contents
Literary papers, 1961-1999, of Stewart Conn (b. 1936), a poet and playwright who was for many years a drama producer for BBC Radio Scotland. These papers includes correspondence, typescripts and a small number of manuscript drafts of poetry, and scripts of plays and adaptations for stage, radio and television.Many of the scripts in this collection have never been published, but it includes manuscripts and typescripts relating to the following published works: 'The Chinese tower'...
Dates:
1961-2005.
Literary papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12937
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, articles and plays, and radio scripts, with some related correspondence.
Dates:
1938-1964.
Literary papers of the poet Bessie MacArthur (1889-1983).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27426-27429
Dates:
1914-1975, undated.
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13471
Dates:
circa 1970-2012.
Literary typescripts of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10772
Scope and Contents
Includes a play, article and poetry.
Dates:
circa 1930-1970.
Literary work and travel journals of Charles Murray., 1888-1941, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27264
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1888-1941, undated.
Literary works of Margaret Hamilton Noël-Paton (born 1896), grand-daughter of Sir Joseph Noël-Paton, the painter.
Series
Identifier: MSS.27465-27475
Dates:
?1932-circa 1981, undated.
"Los Emigrados de Encocia", a play in Spanish, possibly from Mexico.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9463
Dates:
circa 1820.
"Love's labours lost" by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1923), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1923.
Item
Identifier: MS.14388
Dates:
1923.
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.
‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1947), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1947.
Item
Identifier: MS.14389
Dates:
1947.
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.
Manuscript and corrected typescript of the play "The Hart of Scotland" (later retitled "The Bruce") by Robert Simpson Silver.
File
Identifier: Acc.10544
Scope and Contents
With typescript modifications and new scenes and a printed copy of the text.
Dates:
1948-1950.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems by Edwin Muir., 1942-1959, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19653
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1942-1959, undated.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and notes of the synopsis for a play about Gilbert and Sullivan, by Janet Paisley., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.14151 Box 3(3)
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of plays of William McArthur., 1948-1954, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7471/1-34
Dates:
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.
File
Identifier: Acc.10176
Dates:
1989.
Manuscript and typescripts of 'Blood upon the Rose: a play in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1956.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26945-26947
Manuscript and typescripts of ‘The Flouers o Edinburgh’ by Robert McLellan., [1947, or before.]-1951.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26344-26346
Scope and Contents
The play was first produced in 1947.
Dates:
[1947, or before.]-1951.
Manuscript draft of 'A spell for green corn' by George Mackay Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13893
Dates:
? 1964.
Manuscript drafts and notes for play 'Warrender Chase'., 1952.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/155
Manuscript, followed by notes and drafts of 'The Jolly Beggars: a parable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1960.
File
Identifier: MS.26133
Dates:
1960.
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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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Jolly Beggars: a parable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27298
Dates:
[1947-1948.]
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.
Item
Identifier: MS.26394
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'.
Manuscript of act I, and typescripts of 'True Minds', a play by Nancy Brysson Morrison about Thomas and Jane Carlyle, broadcast in 1952 and 1954., 1952, 1954, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27302
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of Act I, entitled 'The Flint and the Flame', undated (folio 1). This is not the version written for broadcasting. (ii) Two typescripts of a version intended for broadcasting, undated (folio 15). The second (folio 56) is heavily corrected and has pencilled remarks by Peggy Morrison. (iii) Annotated typescript of the broadcast, 1954 (folio 90). (iv) Fragments of typescripts, 1952, undated (folio l36).
Dates:
1952, 1954, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).
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Literary papers of Nancy Brysson Morrison.
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Partial manuscript and typescripts of 'True Minds', a play by Nancy Brysson Morrison about Thomas and Jane Carlyle, broadcast in 1952 and 1954.