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].
Comprises three parts: A: Loose leaves of handwritten notes with stage directions, summaries, character notes and exposition of themes. B: Loose leaves of revised manuscript, entitled ‘Act Two’. C: Notebook entitled ‘Act 3’. Manuscript with minor revisions. At the end of the volume there are not...
Clean copy inscribed ‘I, Drayton Gardens’ consisting of one complete version and an alternative typesetting of Act II and part of Act III. With four leaves of handwritten and typewritten instructions by Mervyn Peake, headed ‘The action takes place in a cave’. Includes original file cover.
Lacking the end of Act III. Inscribed ‘I, Drayton Gardens’. Stamp for David Higham Associates Ltd has been crossed through. Loose front sheet inscribed in Maeve Gilmore’s hand in red ink, ‘This play was written between 1957 and 1959 – unpublished and unperformed’.