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 ...
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 w...
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
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a promptbook of Macbeth, written in an interleaved copy of a printed edition of the play. The handwritten notes provide stage directions; scene descriptions; and sound and lighting directions; as well as directions fo...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
Macbeth, King of Scotland, active 11th century, Pitt, Charles Dibdin., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Dramatic production, History, Stage history, English drama, Promptbooks, Stage fighting, Theater, and Production and direction
Manuscript adaptation of Vanbrugh's play of 1705, itself an adaptation of Flourent-Carton Dancourt's "Bourgoises a la mode" of 1692. The play is farcical representation of middle-class citizens attempting to act like nobility. A verse prologue states ...
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 a...
Description:
In English.
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
