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1. Letter to Horace Walpole, 1769 May 8.
- Creator:
- Mason, William, 1725-1797
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 163
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Mason to Horace Walpole, in which Mason writes that he has read Walpole's tragedic play, The Mysterious Mother, several times and has provided a sketch of alterations he believes necessary to improve the denouement. The list of alterations accompanies the letter, which consist of dialogic emendations at specific page and line numbers. At the end of the letter, a note signed by Walpole states his reasons against adopting Mason's suggestions, "because they woud totally have destroyed my Object."
- Description:
- William Mason (1724-1797) was a poet, editor, and gardener. In 1747, his poem "Musaeus, a Monody on the Death of Mr. Pope" was published to acclaim and quickly went through several editions. In 1775, he published the Poems of Mr Gray, a friend who was a great influence on his own work. Ten years later, William Pitt nominated him for the post of Poet Laureate, but he turned it down. Among Mason's other works are the historical tragedies Elfrida (1752) and Caractacus (1759), as well as a long poem on gardening, The English Garden (1772-1782). Indeed, Mason was an influential garden designer, designing several flower gardens for his friends and patrons, especially for Richard Hurd, Lord Jersey, and Lord Harcourt. In 1797 he fell and injured his leg while entering his carriage, and died several days later at his rectory in Aston., In English., Typed transcript available in object file., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Mason, William, 1725-1797. and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- English drama (Tragedy), Family, Incest, Religion, and Theater
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Letter to Horace Walpole, 1769 May 8.
2. Tragedie called Oedipus, [circa 1596-1603].
- Call Number:
- Eliz 294
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and also contains extracts from Thomas Newton's Thebais (1581). The original scenes show the influence of other contemporary verse, including Lyly's Euphues and the fifth book of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596). The work was apparently intended for performance by the pupils of a grammar school, probably the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle upon Tyne and The final two leaves of the volume contain "A speach deliverd before the founders at the entrance of the schole," in the same hand. The speech refers to the Selby family (George Selby was elected Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1600).
- Description:
- In English., Title on front cover: Oedpius with a song., Watermark similar to Briquet 11046., and Binding: contemporary full parchment.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
- Subject (Topic):
- Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
- Found in:
- Elizabethan Club > Tragedie called Oedipus, [circa 1596-1603].