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Muriel Spark

MURIEL SPARK

  (1918 - 2006)
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Muriel Spark originally worked as a secretary and then a poet and literary journalist. She was completely unknown and impoverished until she started her career as a story writer and novelist. Then everything changed literally overnight. From 1957, and the appearance of her first novel, she was warmly applauded by many famous writers of the day including Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Somerset Maugham, Lord David Cecil and hosts of others in the literary establishment. Her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was published in its entirety in The New Yorker, was made into a play on Broadway and the West End of London and then a famous film for which Maggie Smith obtained an Oscar. The film was a Royal Command Performance, attended by all the royal Family at Leicester Square. Muriel Spark was created a Dame in 1993. She received many honorary degrees from universities - London, Edinburgh, Oxford, to name a few - and was awarded countless prizes and honours, both international and national, as well as being translated into all major languages. There is a flourishing Muriel Spark Society based in her birthplace, Edinburgh. She died on 13th April 2006, aged 88.

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below is a list of Muriel Spark's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Abbess of Crewe, The         Ballad of Peckham Rye, The         Black Madonna, The         Comforters, The         Danger Zone, The         Doctors Of Philosophy         Drivers' Seat, The         Dry River Bed, The         Girls of Slender Means, The         Interview, The         Memento Mori         Party Through the Wall, The         Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The         Voices At Play

Abbess of Crewe, The

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-    1981, n.d.

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Genre:
BBC radio script and stage adaptation

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/102-3

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Ballad of Peckham Rye, The

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-    1960-83

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Genre:
BBC radio script

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/84-95

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Black Madonna, The

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Genre:
BBC television rehearsal script

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/104

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Comforters, The

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1st Produced:
-    1958

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Genre:
BBC radio script

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/80-81

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Danger Zone, The

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in "Voices At Play" Macmillan, London, 1961   -

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Genre:
Dramatic Narration

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Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Doctors Of Philosophy

Synopsis:
inimitable observation of life gives an unusual slant to things which on the face of it appear perfectly normal

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1st Produced:
New Arts Theatre Club, London    1962

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Macmillan, London, 1963   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Drivers' Seat, The

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Genre:
Stage adaptation

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/101

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Dry River Bed, The

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in "Voices At Play" Macmillan, London, 1961   -

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Genre:
Dramatic Narration

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Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Girls of Slender Means, The

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-    1965, 1975

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Genre:
BBC radio and television scripts

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/97-100

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Interview, The

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1st Produced:
-    1958

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in "Voices At Play" Macmillan, London, 1961   -

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Genre:
Dramatic Narration BBC radio script

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/71

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Memento Mori

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1st Produced:
-    1961-3

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Genre:
Radio and stage adaptations

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/82-3

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Party Through the Wall, The

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1st Produced:
-    1957-62

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1st Published:
in "Voices At Play" Macmillan, London, 1961   -

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Genre:
Dramatic Narration BBC radio script

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Muriel Spark - Acc.10989/69-70

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Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Lyceum - Acc.5085/17

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Voices At Play

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the Danger Zone; the Ormolu Clock; the Curtain Blown By the Breeze; the Dry River Bed; the Dark Glasses; Bang-Bang You'Re Dead; the Interview; A Member Of the Family; the Father's Daughters;

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Macmillan, London, 1961   -

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