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Other plays and performances, 1939-1959

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MS. 10641/34
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TSS. of, and papers relating to, other plays and performance pieces:

  1. Folder 1: Incomplete TS. of 'Blacklegs', c.1939. Part of stage directions and p.6 missing.
  2. Folder 2: Carbon TS. and some MS. pages, of the play Traitors in Our Way, c. 1957.
  3. Folder 3: Notes for, and draft MS. of 'Narration for King Arthur (Dryden-Purcell)' for performance at The Royal Festival Hall, 17 June 1959, including some related correspondence; TS. of a first rough and short synopsis for a ballet 'The Rape of Persephone', n.d.
  4. Folder 4: Outline of a song programme by Hedli MacNeice, 'The Cruel Wars', and TS. and MS. of a poem by Louis MacNeice, 'Down the Years', for this programme, n.d. [1958?]; playbill and programme for 'Hedli Anderson, Cyril Cusack, Louis MacNeice: A Recital of Song and Verse', Wigmore Hall, 22 Feb 1948, and programmes for other joint recitals of Louis MacNeice and Hedli MacNeice, n.d. [1950s]

Further material relating to 'The Cruel Wars' is with the papers of Hedli MacNeice (MS. 10641/72); programmes, publicity material etc. relating to Hedli MacNeice's and Louis MacNeice's joint US recital tours 1953 and 1954 are in MS. 10641/8.

Dates

  • Creation: 1939-1959

Extent

1 box (4 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 10641/34

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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