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Drinkwater | John | 1882-1937 | Poet and playwright 2
A'Court | William | 1779-1860 | 1st Baron Heytesbury | Diplomat 1
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bürger | Gottfried August | 1747-1794 | poet and translator 1
Carleton | R | fl. 1674-1675 1
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 1
Fletcher | Charles Robert Leslie | 1857-1934 | historian and academic 1
Galsworthy | John | 1867-1933 | Novelist and playwright 1
Gilbert | Davies | 1767-1839 | Cornish engineer, author and politician 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
Godwin | family 1
Gordon | Edward | fl. 1963 1
Hall Caine | Sir | Thomas Henry | 1853-1931 | Knight and novelist 1
Hammond | E. F. | fl. 20th century 1
Herman | Henry | 1832-1894 | Playwright and novelist 1
Hoskins | W. H | fl. 1880 1
Jodrell | Richard Paul | 1745-1831 | Classical scholar and playwright 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Jones | Henry Arthur | 1851-1929 | Playwright and dramatist 1
Jordan | William | fl. 18th century | Cornish dramatist 1
Kazimierczyk | Stanislaw | 1433-1489 | Polish Catholic Priest 1
Kazimierczyk | Stanislaw | fl. 1965 | writer 1
Macmillan| Daniel | 1 Feb. 1886–6 Dec. 1965 | Chairman of Macmillan Holdings, Ltd, since 1964 1
Madan | Falconer | 1851-1935 | Bodley's Librarian, palaeographer and bibliographer 1
Marlowe | Christopher | bap. 1564-1593 | playwright and poet 1
Middleton | Thomas | bap. 1580-1627 | playwright 1
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 1
Piron | M.K. | fl 1968-1970 | translator 1
Powell | V. | de Wilde | fl. 20th century 1
Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 1
Ridler | Anne Barbara | 1912-2001 | née Bradby | poet and writer 1
Ridler | Vivian Hughes | 1913-2009 | printer, typographer and scholar 1
Riley | Alfred | fl. 1920 1
Rizzi | Giuseppe | fl. c.1966 1
Scott | Sir | Walter | 1771-1832 | 1st Baronet | Historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian 1
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | playwright and poet 1
Shaw | George Bernard | 1856-1950 | Playwright, critic, political activist and polemicist 1
Shelley | Jane | d 1899 | nee Gibson | 1st wife of 3rd Baronet | x St. John 1
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 1
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 1
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 1
Shelley | family 1
Stokes | Whitley | 1830-1909 | Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar 1
Taylor | Edward | fl. 1776 | writer and poet 1
University of Oxford | St. John's College 1
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 1
Wollstonecraft | Everina | 1765-1841 1
Wollstonecraft | Mary | 1759-1797 | later Godwin | novelist and essayist 1
Wollstonecraft | family 1
Wren | Christopher | 1589-1658/9 | Dean of Windsor 1

A 17th-cent. Latin play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 102
A 17th-cent. Latin play
Extents: 33 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the poet and writer Anne Ridler (1912-2001) and her husband Vivian Ridler (1913-2009), printer to the Oxford University Press and founder of Perpetua Press.
Extents: 5.596 Linear metres (81 boxes)
Dates: 1836-2011, n.d.; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2011

Copies of old Cornish plays

 Collection
Copies of old Cornish plays.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: written in more than one hand, perhaps late in the 17th and early in the 18th century

Copy by William A'Court, Baron Heytesbury, of his play 'Montalto, a tragedy in five acts'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 23
Copy by William A'Court, Baron Heytesbury, of his play 'Montalto, a tragedy in five acts'
Extents: 86 pages
Dates: 1803-1814

'The Creacion of the worlde, with Noyes flude: wryten by William Jordan. the xiith of August. 1611'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 219
'The Creacion of the worlde, with Noyes flude: wryten by William Jordan. the xiith of August. 1611'
Extents: 74 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1611 by W. Jordan

The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh f. 9 (R)
The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written perhaps about A.D. 1700

'The Girl from Vienna' in two acts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 40
'The Girl from Vienna' in two acts
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Type-written in 1907?

Holograph draft of 'Rebellion' by John Drinkwater

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 50
Holograph draft of 'Rebellion' by John Drinkwater
Extents: 74 Leaves
Dates: 1913-1914

Holograph draft of 'Strife' by John Galsworthy

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 6
Holograph draft of 'Strife' by John Galsworthy
Extents: 152 Leaves
Dates: 1907

Holograph draft of 'The atom of God' by John Drinkwater

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 11
Holograph draft of 'The atom of God' by John Drinkwater
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates: 18 Sept. 1923

Incomplete copy of 'The silver king' by H. A. Jones and Henry Herman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 12
Incomplete copy of 'The silver king' by H. A. Jones and Henry Herman
Extents: 264 Leaves
Dates: 1907

J. Payne Collier ed.,'The skryvener's play', Camden miscellany

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 34
J. Payne Collier ed.,'The skryvener's play', Camden miscellany
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: 1854-1859

'Macbeth, a play ... based on Shakespeare'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. German f. 1
'Macbeth, a play ... based on Shakespeare', written in 1790 by G. A. Bürger
Extents: 100 pages
Dates: written in 1790 by G. A. Bürger

Manuscript of a play 'Weighed in the balance', by W. H. Hoskins

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 500
Manuscript of a play 'Weighed in the balance', by W. H. Hoskins
Extents: 111 Leaves
Dates: 1880

Manuscript texts of Christmas mummers' plays

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 17
Manuscript texts of Christmas mummers' plays
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates: c. 1883-1920

Notes by R. P. Jodrell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 271
Notes by R. P. Jodrell
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates: 1775-1776

Photocopy from Exeter College MS. 198 of W.H. Auden’s amended TS. of an early version of The dog beneath the skin (London, 1935) entitled The chase [1934]

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 97
Photocopy from Exeter College MS. 198 of W.H. Auden’s amended TS. of an early version of The dog beneath the skin (London, 1935) entitled The chase [1934].
Extents: 94 Leaves
Dates: 1934-1935

Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 144, fols. 1-14
Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1792, 1939

Photostats of fragments of mystery plays: Officium pastorum, Visitatic sepulchri, Peregrinus

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 24
Photostats of fragments of mystery plays: Officium pastorum, Visitatic sepulchri, Peregrinus.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: originals dated 15th century