Other plays and performances
MS. 10641/34
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Other plays and performances
Shelfmark
MS. 10641/34
Summary
TSS. of, and papers relating to, other plays and performance pieces:
Folder 1: Incomplete TS. of 'Blacklegs', c.1939. Part of stage directions and p.6 missing.
Folder 2: Carbon TS. and some MS. pages, of the play Traitors in Our Way, c. 1957.
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.
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.
Date
1939-1959
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (4 folders)
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Collection contents
Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice
Literary papers
Plays, performances and recitals
Other plays and performances
