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Playwriting -- Drama

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

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