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12. Add MS 83081
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. v (ff. 155). ‘Dover-Calais: A Light Comedy in Three Acts by Eleanor Farjeon and Julius Berstl’; 18 July 1939-22 Jan. 1940, n.d. Typewritten. Freely adapted by Eleanor Farjeon from Berstl’s 1926 play ‘Dover-Calais: Lustspiel in drei Aufzügen’. 1. ff. 1-147. Draf...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1939-1940
- Extent:
- 1 item
13. Add MS 83082-83083
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. vi-vii. ‘Dumas Gives a Party’; 6 Sept. 1932-28 Sept. 1939, n.d. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced play drawn from the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas père. The play was never staged, partly because another play on the life of Dumas by Jules Goodman was staged at the same time at the New Theatre, London. While initial work on the play was carried out in the 1930s, Eleanor Farjeon’s diary records that she attended a meeting about the play at the Old Vic Theatre on 2...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 6 Sep 1932-28 Sep 1939
- Extent:
- 2 items
14. Add MS 83084-83085
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. viii-ix. ‘An Elephant in Arcady’; 27 Sept. 1938-17 Feb. 1939, n.d. Mostly typewritten. First performed at the Kingsway Theatre, London, on 5 Oct. 1938. Book and lyrics by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon with music chosen by Eleanor and adapted by Ernest Irving. The vocal score was published as An Elephant in Arcady (1938) and was prepared before the Kingsway production. Two volumes.
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 27 Sep 1938-17 Feb 1939
- Extent:
- 2 items
15. Add MS 83090
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. xiv (ff. 191). ‘The Glass Slipper’; 27 Aug. 1943, [1943/1944]. Mostly typewritten. Play based on the fairytale Cinderella, written by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon with music by Clifton Parker. The play was commissioned and produced by Robert Donat at the St. Jame...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1943-1944
- Extent:
- 1 item
16. Add MS 83094
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. xviii (ff. 37). ‘Juliette’ (ff. 1-22), ‘The King’s Daughter Cries for the Moon’ (ff. 23-33) and ‘The Little Mermaid’ (ff. 34-37); 30 Oct. 1948-5 April 1951, n.d. Mostly typewritten. ‘Juliette’ was an unproduced ‘Intimate Opera’ based on a short-story by B. L. Jac...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1948-1951
- Extent:
- 1 item
17. Add MS 83095-83099
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vols. xix-xxiii. ‘Love Affair’; 12 March 1938-23 Aug. 1963, n.d. Typewritten. Unproduced play based on the novel Love Affair (1949). The title was definitively changed to ‘Pierre and Denise’ after the 1956 London production of another play called ‘Love Affair’ by Dulcie Gray. The project originated in the 1930s as a musical, planned in collaboration with Herbert Farjeon, with scenes inspired by French impressionist paintings, see Morning Has Broken, p.255. It w...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 12 Mar 1938-23 Aug 1963
- Extent:
- 5 items
18. Add MS 83102
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. xxvi (ff. 169). ‘Material for a Suit: A Cromwellian Farce in Three Acts’; n.d. Mostly typewritten. Unproduced play based on an episode in Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras, Mémoires de Monsieur d’Artagnan (1700). For ‘Dumas Gives a Party’, drawn from the memoirs of Alexa...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1917-1973]
- Extent:
- 1 item
19. Add MS 83103
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. xxvii (ff. 129). ‘The Pearl of Elizondo’ (ff. 1-57), ‘The Plane Tree’ (ff. 58-125) and ‘The Scamp with a [?] (ff. 126-129); 9 Oct. 1937, n.d. Mostly typewritten. ‘The Pearl of Elizondo’, an unproduced ‘Opera-Bouffe in One Act by Jacques Offenbach Freely Adapted f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1937
- Extent:
- 1 item
20. Add MS 83106
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- Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. xxx (ff. 242). ‘Snow-White’ (ff. 1-4) and ‘The Tarletan Triplets’ (ff. 5-242); n.d. Mostly typewritten. Eleanor Farjeon first wrote ‘Snow White’ as a child, and a revised version of the play was published in Grannie Gray: Children’s Plays and Games With Music and Wit...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1939-1940
- Extent:
- 1 item