Plays and poetry, with some writings on Charles Williams by other authors

Title

Plays and poetry, with some writings on Charles Williams by other authors

Shelfmark

MS. 16123/4

Summary

Manuscript and typescript plays and poetry, with some commentaries on Charles Williams by other authors:

Printed programme for revival performance of Masque of the Manuscript and Masque of Perusal, Jan 1955.

Manuscript lines from The Chaste Wanton not included in final version [n.d.].

Typescript fair copies and photocopies of published plays written for Amen House: including typescript draft of 'A Carol for Amen House', 1927; The Masque of the Manuscript and accompanying sonnets, c.1927; The Masque of Perusal, 1929; and The Masque of The Termination of Copyright, 1930.

Writings on Charles Williams: typescript essay on 'Charles Williams. The Affirmation of Images' by Valerie Pitt, from Mandrake 3, Oxford, May 1946; parodies of Williams' poetry by R.M. Leonard, one referring to Williams' marriage, c.1908-1917; typescript and newspaper cutting relating to review of Charles Williams by John Heath-Stubbs (1946, 1955); review by Dorothy Sayers of The House of the Octopus, 1945.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems: 'Taliessin in the Rose Garden'; 'The Working of Porphyry'; 'The Departure of Blanchefleur'; and 'Divites Dimisit' [n.d.].

Typescript of The Three Temptations, a play for broadcast, 1942.

Manuscript and typescript fair copies of poems written by Charles Williams for Alice Mary Smyth (later Miller, later Hadfield), c.1931-1935.

Date

c.1908-1955

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (7 folders)