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121. Add MS 88931/3/6/5

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Anima Mundi or The Cave’
Scope & Content:
Inscribed ‘1 Drayton Gardens’. Undated [but appears to have been produced on an electronic typewriter].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 file

122. Add MS 88931/3/7

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Title:
The Greenhorn
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play. Comprises two parts: A: Loose leaves with autograph notes for the first five scenes and the beginning of Act I Scene 1. Undated [although one leaf is inscribed 'A LINE' which suggests that this may be contemporaneous with Peake's idea for television 'Just a Line', circa 1955 -...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

123. Add MS 88931/3/8

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Title:
‘The Teddy Boy: TV’
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in exercise book (originally inscribed with Peake's daughter's name ‘Clare Peake’) with notes and revised draft of unfinished television play. Also includes epilogue [for his play ‘Noah's Ark’ - see Add MS 88931/3/10 for typescript of the rest of this play]. Includes sketche...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

124. Add MS 88931/3/9

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Title:
‘The Widowers’ or 'The Four Old Men'
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play for television or film. Comprises two autograph notebooks: A: ‘The Four Old Men’, entitled ‘The Widowers’ inside the volume. Heavily revised. Includes small detailed drawings of characters and other figures. There are screen directions [in Maeve Gilmore’s hand]. Undated. B: ‘The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[late 1950s]
Extent:
1 file

125. Add MS 88931/3/10

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Title:
‘Noah’s Ark: A Play For Children’
Scope & Content:
Typescript for a finished play, with minor corrections in Mervyn Peake’s hand. Wallington address crossed out and replaced with Drayton Gardens. Undated [but Maeve Gilmore's introductory note in Peake's Progress states 'This play was written for children circa 1960' - see Mervyn Peake, Peake's P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1960]
Extent:
1 file

126. Add MS 88931/4

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Title:
Dramatisations
Scope & Content:
Dramatisations for stage and radio of Peake's novels and his poem The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1964
Extent:
7 files

127. Add MS 88931/4/1

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Title:
'Gormenghast' Opera
Scope & Content:
Adaptation of Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake [for which he hoped Benjamin Britten would compose the music].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1950s
Extent:
3 files

128. Add MS 88931/4/1/1

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Title:
'Gormenghast' Opera (part one)
Scope & Content:
Three autograph working notebooks: A: 'Gormenghast'. Opening scenes of the play corresponding with beginning of the novel Titus Groan. Includes designs for the Countess's bedroom and a drawing of Rottcodd in his hammock. Also contains a leaf of tracing paper with symbols drawn in pencil, entitle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1950s
Extent:
1 file

129. Add MS 88931/4/1/2

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Title:
'Gormenghast' Opera (part two)
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves. Undated. Includes: prologue (two versions); Act I Scene 1 between Flay and Rottcodd; Act I Scene 2 between Swelter, Steerpike and Flay; notes for Scene 1. Drawings in ink and pencil: lectern and book; window shattering; Swelter raising glass with kitchen staff gathered around an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

130. Add MS 88931/4/1/3

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Title:
'Titus Groan' Opera
Scope & Content:
Comprises two parts: A: Foolscap leaves corresponding to the opening scenes of Titus Groan, with minor revisions only. Undated. B: Autograph notebook. Some leaves pasted in. First half of the manuscript is crossed through; second half inscribed 'please continue here from the foolscap (page 14)'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file