| Description | The play, in three acts, was first performed at the Exeter Festival in 1978, with music by Stephen McNeff and was subsequently broadcast on radio. It was published in 1981 by Kestrel Books with illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert.
Papers include:
1. Four notebooks containing manuscript drafts of the play, with some typescript versions enclosed, 1974-? 1981.
2. Three files of manuscript and typescript versions of play, with manuscript revisions, and also including illustrations, correspondence, a newspaper cutting showing the appearance of the play in radio schedule listings for 1980 and some publicity leaflets relating to the 1978 performance of the play, 1978-? 1981.
3. Two fine typescripts of radio version of play, 1980.
4. File containing three letters from Penguin Books Ltd. to Causley, concerning publication of 'The ballad of Aucassin and Nicolette: a play in three acts', May 1980.
5. Dust-jacket of The ballad of Aucassin and Nicolette: a play in three acts, 1981.
6. Three files of proofs and proof typescripts, c 1981. |