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Playwriting -- Drama

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

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A 17th-cent. Latin play

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

The Abinger Papers

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
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Archive of Anne Ridler and Vivian Ridler

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
Collection

Copies of old Cornish plays

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

Copy by William A'Court, Baron Heytesbury, of his play 'Montalto, a tragedy in five acts'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 23
Extents: 86 pages
Dates: 1803-1814
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'The Creacion of the worlde, with Noyes flude: wryten by William Jordan. the xiith of August. 1611'

'The Creacion of the worlde, with Noyes flude: wryten by William Jordan. the xiith of August. 1611'
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 219
Extents: 74 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1611 by W. Jordan
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The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play

The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh f. 9 (R)
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written perhaps about A.D. 1700
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'The Girl from Vienna' in two acts

'The Girl from Vienna' in two acts
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 40
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Type-written in 1907?
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Holograph draft of 'Rebellion' by John Drinkwater

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

Holograph draft of 'Strife' by John Galsworthy
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 6
Extents: 152 Leaves
Dates: 1907
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Holograph draft of 'The atom of God' by John Drinkwater

Holograph draft of 'The atom of God' by John Drinkwater
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 11
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates: 18 Sept. 1923
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Incomplete copy of 'The silver king' by H. A. Jones and Henry Herman

Incomplete copy of 'The silver king' by H. A. Jones and Henry Herman
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 12
Extents: 264 Leaves
Dates: 1907
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J. Payne Collier ed.,'The skryvener's play', Camden miscellany

J. Payne Collier ed.,'The skryvener's play', Camden miscellany
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 34
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: 1854-1859
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'Macbeth, a play ... based on Shakespeare'

'Macbeth, a play ... based on Shakespeare', written in 1790 by G. A. Bürger
Shelfmark: MS. German f. 1
Extents: 100 pages
Dates: written in 1790 by G. A. Bürger
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Manuscript of a play 'Weighed in the balance', by W. H. Hoskins

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

Manuscript texts of Christmas mummers' plays
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 17
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates: c. 1883-1920
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Notes by R. P. Jodrell

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

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].
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 97
Extents: 94 Leaves
Dates: 1934-1935
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Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays

Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 144, fols. 1-14
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1792, 1939
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Photostats of fragments of mystery plays: Officium pastorum, Visitatic sepulchri, Peregrinus

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