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Literary manuscripts, drama, additional material (second) series [textual record]

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Date:

1930-1992.

Reference:

MG30-D362

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

128561

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Robertson Davies fonds

Literary manuscripts, drama, additional material (second) series
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Date(s):

1930-1992.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.125 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of manuscript notes, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts with revisions, and some correspondence relating to the writing of Robertson Davies' plays.

Series includes material for early works entitled "King Cole" (1944) and "The King and the Caliph" (1943-1944); the B.B.C. director's script for Never to Return, based on Davies' thesis on Shakespearean boy actors (1938); notes for an uncompleted Oedipus play; manuscript notes for Hunting Stuart; related material for plays, both produced and unproduced, entitled "Intermission Time", "The Golden Lily", "Granny's First Play", "Three Gypsies", "Coping with Babylon", An Evening with Ben Johnson, "Children of the Sun", and The Peeled Eye; the Ottawa Drama League's copy of Fortune, My Foe; and introductions to later editions of collections of Davies' plays. Arranged chronologically.

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Private

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MG30-D362
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Volume [MG30 D 362] 55--56

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