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Add MS 88931/3/2
- Record Id:
- 040-001001309
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x0000bc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/3/2
- Title:
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'Isle Escape'
- Scope & Content:
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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 Connoisseurs’, ‘Private Language’, ‘Prologue – a Lion’, ‘Fustiano' or 'The Last Pocket’, ‘A Play Upon Words’ and 'The Unconscientious Objectors'. Also includes brief notes for opera [of Gormenghast].
B: Loose leaves of autograph draft entitled ‘Isle Escape’. Appears to consist of complete first scene and opening of second scene. The first four leaves written on lined paper were published by G Peter Winnington in ‘Peake’s Unfinished Plays (Part I)’, Peake Studies, 10:2 (April 2007), 3-27. The remaining portion written on plain paper was found with the ‘Manifold Basket’ manuscript see Add MS 88931/3/4.
These papers are undated but the working notes in part A are inscribed 'debate as to where to go to escape 1951'. The date given in the draft in part B is 1956.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001001015
040-001001309 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/3 : Plays
Add MS 88931/3/2 : Isle Escape - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0003]/036-001001015[0002]/040-001001309
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1950
- End Date:
- 1957
- Date Range:
- [1951?-1956?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)