JT
wrote several plays under the name Gordon Daviot. Her first, Richard of Bordeaux, was by far her greatest critical success. Its immediate successors had much shorter runs, and most of her later...
Textual Production
Josephine Tey
The West End production was a major success for everyone involved. The first two nights were slow, but the first matinee saw an unexpected rush on seats, and the show became a smash hit....
Textual Production
Molly Keane
MK
's next play (again in collaboration with Perry
and directed by Gielgud
) was Ducks and Drakes, 1941, published the following year.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
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Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
114
Textual Production
Josephine Tey
This play was considerably less successful than Richard of Bordeaux, and ran for only a few weeks.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 141
John Gielgud
turned down the male lead, which he felt was too young for him...
