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Add MS 88931/4/1/2
- Record Id:
- 040-001001343
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x0000f0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/4/1/2
- 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 animal carcass;
- Steerpike bowing;
- Rottcodd in hammock;
- Swelter and Steerpike;
- [Steerpike?];
- unidentified male character;
- the kitchen: kitchen staff gathered around Swelter, Steerpike to the side;
- figure wearing dragon helmet;
- Steerpike and Flay;
- Prunesquallor;
- interior of castle: two figures in foreground with Gormenghast Mountain visible through round window;
- [Sepulchrave?];
- 'Scene 1: The bedroom of the Countess of Groan and a landing ... [illeg]';
- [Sourdust?];
- Steerpike looking out through window at Gormenghast;
- 'Swelter seen through doors of Great Kitchen surrounded by apprentices - Flay and Steerpike in foreground'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001001340
037-001001352
040-001001343 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/4 : Dramatisations
Add MS 88931/4/1 : 'Gormenghast' Opera
Add MS 88931/4/1/2 : 'Gormenghast' Opera (part two) - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0004]/036-001001340[0001]/037-001001352[0002]/040-001001343
- 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:
- 1959
- Date Range:
- [1950s]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Arrangement:
-
File originally included list of ideas for fourth Titus book, headed 'Titus among the -' (see Add MS 88931/13/2/5).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)