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Overview
Robertson Davies (1913–1995), one of Canada’s most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his first venture into print at the age of nine to works published posthumously to 2011. Entries include each of Davies’ signed publications and those pseudonymous or anonymous writings he acknowledged having written. Included are his plays, novels, journalism, academic writing, translations, interviews, speeches, lectures, unsigned articles and editorials, films, audio recordings, and multimedia editions. Also listed is a generous sampling of unsigned articles and editorials.
Using Davies’ archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history scholars.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781442667280 |
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| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 538 |
| File size: | 20 MB |
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About the Author
Judith Skelton Grant is the author or editor of eight books, including the authorized biography of Robertson Davies. Her most recent book is A Bibliography of Robertson Davies (written with Carl Spadoni).
Table of Contents
Chronology
Introduction: Scope and Arrangement of the Bibliography; Descriptive Elements; Sources Consulted; Index
Location Symbols
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
A Section: Separate Publications
Shakespeare’s Boy Actors. 1939
Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course. 1942
How Stupid Is Canada? 1946
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. 1947
Overlaid: A Comedy. 1948
Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. 1949
Fortune, My Foe. 1949
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. 1949
At My Heart’s Core. 1950
Tempest-Tost. 1951
A Masque of Aesop. 1952
Leaven of Malice. 1954
A Jig for the Gypsy. [1955]
A Mixture of Frailties. 1958
Battle Cry for Book Lovers. 1960
A Voice from the Attic. 1960
Literature in Medicine. 1962
A Masque of Mr Punch. 1963
In Memoriam Lionel Vincent Massey 1916-1965. 1965
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1965
A21 Massey College Calendar 1966-1967. 1966
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1966
At My Heart’s Core & Overlaid. 1966
Massey College Calendar 1967-1968. 1967
Marchbanks’ Almanack. 1967
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1967
Massey College Head Remembers Vincent Massey. 1968
In Memoriam The Right Honourable Vincent Massey 1887-1967. [1968]
The Voice of the People. 1968
Four Favourite Plays. 1968
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1968
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1969
Stephen Leacock. 1970
[Citation of Dora Mavor Moore for Honorary Degree]. 1970
Feast of Stephen. 1970
The Other Leacock [program poster]. 1970
The McFiggin Fragment. 1970
Fifth Business. 1970
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1970
The Heart of a Merry Christmas. 1970
What Do You See in the Mirror? 1970
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1971
Hunting Stuart & Other Plays. 1972
The Manticore. 1972
An Evening with Ben Jonson [program poster]. 1972
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1972
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1973
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1974
Question Time. 1975
World of Wonders. 1975
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1975
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1976
One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics. 1977
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1977
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1978
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies. 1979
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1979
[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1980
The Well-Tempered Critic. 1981
The Penguin Leacock. 1981
Brothers in the Black Art. 1981
The Rebel Angels. 1981
On Being a Professional. 1981
High Spirits. 1982
Thirty Years at Stratford. [1983]
The Mirror of Nature. 1983
The Deptford Trilogy. 1983
Introduction to The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985
What’s Bred in the Bone. 1985
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985
The Salterton Trilogy. 1986
The Lyre of Orpheus. 1988
[Folio Society promotional leaflet. 1990?]
Opera and Humour. 1991
Murther & Walking Spirits. 1991
The Cornish Trilogy. [1992]
Reading and Writing. 1993
An Introduction to the Twenty-First Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair. 1993
Jezebel: The Golden Tale of Naboth and His Vineyard, and of King Ahab and His Wicked Queen. 1993
Revelation from a Smoky Fire. 1993
Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography. 1993
Two Plays: Fortune, My Foe & Eros at Breakfast. 1993
A Return to Rhetoric. 1993
The Cunning Man. 1994
Two Plays: Hunting Stuart & The Voice of the People. 1994
The Dignity of Literature. 1994
A Christmas Carol Re-Harmonized. 1995
A Gathering of Ghost Stories. 1995
Animal U. 1995
The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995. 1996
Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts. 1997
The Golden Ass, a Libretto. 1999
For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995. 1999
Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975. 2002
The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master. 2005
Selected Plays. 2008
Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading. 2008
Selected Works on the Art of Writing. 2008
B Section: Contributions to Books
“Diary of Christmas Excitement” in Souvenir Edition Examiner for the Annual Christmas Party 1945. 1945
“The Theatre: A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada” in Royal Commission Studies. 1951.
Preface, “The Director,” and “The Players” in Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada 1953. 1953
Statement for playbill A Jig for a Gypsy. 1954
Preface, “Rehearsal—A Study in Rhythm,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Measure for Measure,” and “Oedipus Rex” in Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954. 1954
Introduction to B.K. Sandwell’s The Diversions of Duchesstown and Other Essays. 1955.
Preface, “Julius Caesar,” “King Oedipus,” “Merchant of Venice,” and “A Note on Style in Acting” in Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1955. 1955
“Sherry Trifle” in We Can Cook Too! Recipes Hot Off the Press. 1956
“Stephen Leacock” in Claude T. Bissell, ed., Our Living Tradition: Seven Canadians. 1957
Introduction to Stephen Leacock’s Literary Lapses. 1958
“Shakespeare Over Port” in B.A.W. Jackson’s Stratford Papers on Shakespeare. 1961
“The Theatre” in D.C. Williams’s The Arts as Communication. 1962
“Changing Fashions in Shakespearian Production” in B.A.W. Jackson’s Stratford Papers on Shakespeare. 1963
Testimonial letter in Lulie Westfeldt’s F. Matthias Alexander: The Man and His Work. 1964
Introduction to Stephen Leacock’s Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy. 1964
“Stephen Leacock” in Encyclopedia Americana. 1964
“The Implacable Educator” in Great Canadians, A Century of Achievement. 1965
Introduction to Horton Rhys’s A Theatrical Trip for a Wager! Through Canada and the United States. 1966
Preface to Ronald Borg’s Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters. 1966
The Centennial Play. 1967
The Centennial Play program. 1967
Program note for the play Caste, Hart House Theatre. 1967
“Letters: The Unfashionable Canadians” in John D. Harbron’s Century 1867-1967: The Canadian Saga. 1967.
“Note on A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” in Peter Raby’s The Stratford Scene, 1958-1968. 1968
“Some Reminiscences of W.L. Grant” in The W.L. Grant Fellowship in Adult Education. 1969
“Ben Johnson and Alchemy” in B.A.W. Jackson’s Stratford Papers 1968-69. 1972
Foreword to Betty Lee’s Love and Whisky: The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival. 1973
“III Playwrights and Plays” in vol. VI of The Revels History of Drama in English. 1975
Autobiographical essay in World Authors 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors. 1975
Preface to Abraham Rotstein’s Beyond Industrial Growth. 1976
“Massey College” in William Kilbourn’s The Toronto Book: An Anthology of Writings Past and Present. 1976
Statement in advertisement flyer, Masks of Satan. 1976
Program note to the MacMillan Theatre’s production of “Pontiac and the Green Man.” 1977
Chapter Three, “Robertson Davies,” in Geraldine Anthony’s Stage Voices: Twelve Canadian Playwrights Talk about Their Lives and Work. 1978
“A Note on ‘Overlaid’” in Transitions I: Short Plays, A Source Book of Canadian Literature. 1978
Tribute in The Pierre Berton Celebration Dinner. 1979
“The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect” in Studies in Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy. 1980
Introduction to “Hope Deferred” in Anton Wagner’s Canada’s Lost Plays, vol. 3, The Developing Mosaic: English-Canadian Drama to Mid-Century. 1980
Introduction to Arnold Edinborough’s The Festivals of Canada. 1981
“Mixed Grill: Touring Fare in Canada, 1920-1935” in L.W. Conolly’s Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America. 1982
“What the Opera Is About” in Doctor Canon’s Cure, theatre programme. 1982
Foreword to Richard Perkyns’s Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984. 1984
Introduction to John Cowper Powys’s Wolf Solent. 1984
Introduction to Graham McInnes’s The Road to Gundagai. 1985
Foreword to vol. 1 of John Pettigrew and Jamie Portman’s Stratford: The First Thirty Years. 1985
“What Is Canadian about Canadian Literature” in Franz K. Stanzel and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz’s Encounters and Explorations: Canadian Writers and European Critics. 1986
Letter to Nicholas Goldschmidt in The Peeled Eye: An Author in Canada, Guelph Spring Festival programme. 1986
“The Novel as Secular Religion” in The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 8. 1987.
Introduction to Robert Finch’s Sail-Boat and Lake. 1988
“Massey, Vincent” and “Massey, Raymond Hart” in Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly’s The Oxford Companion to Canadian Drama and Theatre. 1989
“The Only Creatures in All of Nature Who Sing Are Birds and Mankind” in The Joy of Singing: 1989 International Choral Festival. 1989
Introduction to Francis Thistleton’s How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona. 1989
Statement in Edward Arlington Robinson. 1990
“A Chat about Literacy” in More Than Words Can Say: Personal Perspectives on Literacy. 1990
“On Macbeth” for the Stratford Festival Theatre programme of Macbeth. 1990
“Heartcry of an Over-Solicited Donor” in Margaret Atwood’s Barbed Lyres: Canadian Venomous Verse. 1990
“On the Dangerous Edge” in Clifton Fadiman’s Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women of Our Time. 1990
Chapter 4, “The Nineteenth-Century Repertoire” in Ann Saddlemyer’s Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914. 1990
“Robertson Davies” in Christopher Bigsby’s Arthur Miller and Company. 1990
Introduction to Dorothy Sennett’s Vital Signs: International Stories on Aging. 1991
“Reading and Writing” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. 1992
“Reflections from the Golden Age” in The Greek Miracle Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy. 1992
“A Birthday Brindisi” in Red Jade Cups: John Espey at Eighty. 1993
“The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture” in An Emerging North American Culture. 1993
“A Try for Greatness” in Clare Boylan’s The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored. 1993
Introduction to Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right. 1994
“Tanya Moiseiwitsch: An Appreciation” in T.J. Edelstein’s The Stage Is All the World: The Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch. 1994
Tribute to Nicholas Goldschmidt in A Night in Old Vienna. 1994
“Getting There” in Constance Rooke’s Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. 1994
“Leacock Stephen (1869-1944)” in Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly’s Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 1994
Introduction to Marie Elena Korey’s Elegant Editions: Aspects of Victorian Book Design. 1995
Untitled tribute to Robert Christie in Five Fond Tributes to Robert Christie. 1995.
Introduction to Mabel Smith, Dick Beck, and Beth McMaster’s Peterborough Theatre Guild: The First Thirty Years. 1995
Afterword to Mavis Gallant’s Across the Bridge. 1996
Foreword to Jerry Sontag’s Curiosity Recaptured: Exploring Ways We Think and Move. 1996
Libretto to The Golden Ass: A Two Act Opera. 1999
“Irving, Sir Henry” in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison’s Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 29. 2004
“Summers, (Augustus) Montague” in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison’s Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 53. 2004
C Section: Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Journals, Magazines, and Annuals)
1923-1939
1940-1944
1945-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-2004
D Section: Reports of Speeches, Lectures, and Public Presentations
E Section: Speeches and Lectures Given
F Section: Interviews
G Section: Unsigned Articles and Editorials
H Section: Translations (organized under each language)
I Section: Films, Recordings by Davies, Audio Books, and Braille
J Section: Contributions in Articles and Books by Others
Index
What People are Saying About This
“A richly rewarding bibliography that offers remarkable depth, breadth, and authority. Students and scholars in the fields of Canadian literature and book history, as well as librarians, booksellers, and book collectors will find this bibliography to be a powerful tool.”
“A Bibliography of Robertson Davies presents an enormous amount of research in a concise and readable fashion. It will be of great benefit to both scholars of Davies’ work and historians of Canadian publishing history.”