Drama
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Archives of the Footlights Dramatic Club, 1883 - 2019
Arthur Schnitzler papers
The collection contains sketches, first drafts and variants of the most important of Schnitzler's literary manuscripts and part of his correspondence (mainly that which Schnitzler personally filed in folders). Correspondents include Hermann Bahr, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Otto Brahm, Georg Brandes, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt, Felix Salten, Gustav Schwarzkopf and Jakob Wassermann.
Bola Brankovic: Two works
Typescripts of a novel and a play.
Cambridge University European Theatre Group: Records and Papers
Tour notes, correspondence, accounts and posters.
Christopher Hassall: Letters to George Benson and related papers
Correspondence written by Christopher Hassall to his friend George Benson, together with related items including a diary volume with entries by Hassall, literary texts by Hassall, notes by Benson, letters between other correspondents, and printed items.
Correspondence and accounts of the Senior Treasurer, Cambridge University European Theatre Group, 2009 - 2011
Includes lists of members.
Dramatic and Musical Societies, 1910 - 2023
Records of Downing College Musical Society and Dramatic Society (now Downing Dramatic Society).
Dramatic Society, 1944 - 2023
Mainly posters (with occasional programmes) for productions from 2014 in the Howard Theatre (with occasional DDS productions elsewhere), plus several between 1944 and 1955.
Edward Rose: Correspondence and papers
Eliot: The Papers of the Hayward Bequest of T.S. Eliot Material
Footlights Dramatic Club, 'the Footlights', 1891 - 2013
Frederick Denison Maurice: Lecture drafts
Drafts of lectures on Mechanics' Institutes, Working-Men's Colleges, the historical plays of William Shakespeare, world civilisation and co-operation.
Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke: Mustapha (play), early seventeenth century
A tragedy, without title, beginning (Act I scene 1, the speakers being 'Solliman' and 'Rossa') 'Rossa the eternal wisedome dothe not covette ...'; the scene is laid in Turkey.
George Crotch and Joseph Ebsworth: Extracts and Notes
504 folios. The main part of the volume is taken up with 'The Return from Parnassus', an extract from Sir Thomas Hawkins's Origins of English drama, 3, p. 301. The contents also include: (fo. 2) notes on J.E. Tennent, 'Ceylon'; (fo. 441) extracts from A. Ramsay, Tea-table miscellany, Calliope or the musical miscellany and the Saturday magazine; (fo. 446) notes on entomology. Fos 4, 82-440, 454 and many of the versos are blank.
GODS (dramatic society), 1964 - 2008
Materials from Churchill College student and staff clubs, societies and associations
Herodes Tragœdia, by Guilielmus Goldingham, late sixteenth century
Dedicated to Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst.
[James Kenney]: The Irish Ambassador
A play in two acts, 61 folios. The present copy, which lacks the author's name, contains a list of the cast, including [Tyrone] Power and Miss E[llen] Tree in the leading parts of Sir Patrick O'Plenigo and Lady Emily Delawney. According to the Dictionary of national biography, Power appeared in this part at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in 1840. The paper is watermarked 1838. On fo. 34: 'Elsher Shaw'.
John James Papers
Literary papers and correspondence of the poet John James. Includes texts of poetry and prose by James; files relating to particular subjects; correspondence; and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1960s onwards, although there is some juvenilia dating from the 1940s.
Original compositions written for Part I and Part II of the English Tripos, 1949 - 1973
Many compositions are accompanied by envelopes, letters, cover sheets and associated items, and a few bear examiners' comments.
Papers of John Tanfield
Personal Papers of Elsa Malik, 1924 - 2005
The papers listed here include a miscellany of personal and biographical records, papers from Elsa's time at Girton College, and the manuscripts of four of her plays.
Personal Papers of Gladys Williams, 1904 - 2013
The papers of Gladys Williams consist chiefly of manuscripts of some of her written work (published and unpublished), together with a small quantity of personal and biographical items.
Personal Papers of Jane Catherine Gamble, 1783 - 1884
The papers comprise Jane Gamble's own writings, including her literary compositions; her business papers and related correspondence and also a collection of letters, mementoes and artefacts preserved by her.
Photographs of plays performed by the Cambridge University German Society; with occasional programme and song score, 1936 - 1939
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
Plays, 1909 - 1955
Scripts of plays written by Lady Randolph, together with related correspondence and financial papers.