Unfinished play. Comprises two parts: A: Notebook made from typescript and manuscript leaves pasted into a copy of The British Countryside in Pictures. Consists of Act I and beginning of Act II. Includes drawings of characters Manifold Basket and Bellgrove. Undated. B: Five loose leaves with f...
Complete play. Maeve Gilmore's introductory note for 'The Cave' in Peake's Progress states 'This play was written between 1957 and 1959' [see Add MS 88931/13/4/5].
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 -...
Unfinished play. Comprises: A: Loose leaves with autograph working notes and dialogue for a play entitled ‘Isle Escape’. Originally the idea appears to have consisted of vignettes with an assortment of characters. These early fragments of manuscript are variously entitled ‘Six Little Satires on...
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...
Script of Peake's verse play which was performed at the Arts Theatre Club, London in 1957. According to Maeve Gilmore, Peake begun writing 'The Wit to Woo' circa 1950: 'The Wit to Woo', Peake's Progress (London: British Library, 2011), p.267. Typescripts Add MS 88931/3/1/16-19 are identical as ty...
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...
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 ...