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ERIC LINKLATER (1899 - 1974) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Although born in Penarth, Wales, in 1899, Eric Linklater spent much of his childhood in Orkney and considered himself an Orcadian. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, but his medical studies at the University of Aberdeen were interrupted by World War 1. After the War, he graduated in English Literature and took up journalism, becoming Assistant Editor of The Times of India. There followed two years in the USA as a Commonwealth Fellow, from which emerged the work which established his reputation as a humorist, the novel Juan in America (1931), which satirised Prohibition America. Linklater was to write twenty three novels, ranging from the Viking saga of The Men of Ness (1932) to the Cold War fable A Spell for old bones (1949), from the dramatic retellings of Biblical stories Judas (1939) and Husband of Delilah (1962) to the anti-war comedy Private Angelo (1946). In 1933, he married Marjorie Macintyre, and then stood as a candidate for the National Party of Scotland in a by-election, thinly disguising the unsuccessful campaign in the farcical Magnus Merriman (1934), notable for its merciless guying of stalwarts of the Scottish Literary Renaissance, in particular MacDiarmid. During World War 11, he commanded Fortress Orkney as a Major in the Royal Engineers, then worked for the War Office recording the Italian Campaign, rediscovering the hidden art treasures of Florence - he kissed Botticelli's Primavera. His humane gentle story about Private Angelo, the Italian peasant who finally finds courage, is one of the finest novels of the War. Throughout the fifties and sixties Linklater continued to add to his impressive range, following the moving prose-poem Roll of honour (1961) with the knockabout exposure of charlatanism A Man over forty (1963) and the experimental Pythonesque fantasy A Terrible freedom (1966). Simultaneously he found time to write plays for radio and (less successfully) for stage; some thirty short stories which for range and depth rival those of any Scottish author, collected as The Stories of Eric Linklater (1968) in which we discovered Sealskin Trousers; and many works of travel, history, biography, criminology, military history and children's fiction. There are three volumes of autobiography, The Man on my back (1941), A Year of space (1953), and Fanfare for a tin hat (1970). Eric Linklater died on 7th November 1974 and is buried in Harray Kirkyard, Orkney.
John MacRitchie : http://www.ayeproductions.co.uk/sealskin/ericlinklater.html
Plays by Eric Linklater
Breakspear In Gascony | ||
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| 1st Published: | Macmillan, London, 1958 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20939 | |||
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Genre: | Satirical Drama Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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Corner-Stones | ||
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| 1st Published: | Macmillan, London, 1941 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41980 | |||
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Genre: | Conversation in Elysium | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crisis in Heaven | ||
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| 1st Published: | Macmillan, London, 1944 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41981 | |||
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Genre: | Elysian Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Eric Linklater - Acc.5665/1/1 | |||||
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Love In Albania | ||
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| 1st Published: | English Theatre Guild, London, 1950 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41982 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy in Three Acts Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Moll Flanders | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | n.d. | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107268 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Eric Robert Russell Linklater - Acc.10155/39 | |||||
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Mortimer Touch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wimbledon Theatre, London | 31 Mar 1952 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107264 | |||
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Genre: | comedy farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 52.82 | |||||
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Pageant of St Magnus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1937 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107269 | |||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Eric Robert Russell Linklater - Acc.10155/38 | |||||
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Prologue to a play | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | n.d. | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107270 | |||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Eric Robert Russell Linklater - Acc.10155/39A | |||||
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Raft, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Raft and Socrates Asks Why" published by Macmillan 1942 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136226 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seventeenth Front, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107265 | |||
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Genre: | Radio play. Manuscript and typescript | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Eric Linklater - Acc.5665/11/15 | |||||
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Sixty Below | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour. Eds. Yvette Nolan, Betty Quan, and George Bwanika Seremba. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | PUC Play Service | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39883 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Pati Flather and Eric Linklater | |||||
| Henry gets out of jail ready to straighten his life out. But his old buddies just want to party and the ghost of local hero Johnnie just wont go away | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Socrates Asks Why | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Raft and Socrates Asks Why" published by Macmillan 1942 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136227 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stella the Bajanella | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1922 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107266 | |||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Eric Linklater - Acc.10282/26 | |||||
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To Meet the MacGregors | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1946 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107267 | |||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Citizens' Theatre - Acc.4933/6 | |||||
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