Bibliography of Robertson Davies

Carl Spadoni is the former director of the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections at the McMaster University Library. 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).

• ChronologyIntroduction: Scope and Arrangement of the Bibliography; Descriptive Elements; Sources Consulted; IndexLocation SymbolsAcknowledgmentsIllustrationsA Section: Separate PublicationsShakespeare’s Boy Actors. 1939Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course. 1942How Stupid Is Canada? 1946The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. 1947Overlaid: A Comedy. 1948Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. 1949Fortune, My Foe. 1949The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. 1949At My Heart’s Core. 1950Tempest-Tost. 1951A Masque of Aesop. 1952Leaven of Malice. 1954A Jig for the Gypsy. [1955]A Mixture of Frailties. 1958Battle Cry for Book Lovers. 1960A Voice from the Attic. 1960Literature in Medicine. 1962A Masque of Mr Punch. 1963In Memoriam Lionel Vincent Massey 1916-1965. 1965[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1965A21 Massey College Calendar 1966-1967. 1966[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1966At My Heart’s Core & Overlaid. 1966Massey College Calendar 1967-1968. 1967Marchbanks’ Almanack. 1967[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1967Massey College Head Remembers Vincent Massey. 1968In Memoriam The Right Honourable Vincent Massey 1887-1967. [1968]The Voice of the People. 1968Four Favourite Plays. 1968[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1968[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1969Stephen Leacock. 1970[Citation of Dora Mavor Moore for Honorary Degree]. 1970Feast of Stephen. 1970The Other Leacock [program poster]. 1970The McFiggin Fragment. 1970Fifth Business. 1970[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1970The Heart of a Merry Christmas. 1970What Do You See in the Mirror? 1970[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1971Hunting Stuart & Other Plays. 1972The Manticore. 1972An Evening with Ben Jonson [program poster]. 1972[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1972[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1973[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1974Question Time. 1975World of Wonders. 1975[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1975[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1976One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics. 1977[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1977[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1978The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies. 1979[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1979[Gaudy Night broadside]. 1980The Well-Tempered Critic. 1981The Penguin Leacock. 1981Brothers in the Black Art. 1981The Rebel Angels. 1981On Being a Professional. 1981High Spirits. 1982Thirty Years at Stratford. [1983]The Mirror of Nature. 1983The Deptford Trilogy. 1983Introduction to The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985What’s Bred in the Bone. 1985The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985The Salterton Trilogy. 1986The Lyre of Orpheus. 1988[Folio Society promotional leaflet. 1990?]Opera and Humour. 1991Murther & Walking Spirits. 1991The Cornish Trilogy. [1992]Reading and Writing. 1993An Introduction to the Twenty-First Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair. 1993Jezebel: The Golden Tale of Naboth and His Vineyard, and of King Ahab and His Wicked Queen. 1993Revelation from a Smoky Fire. 1993Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography. 1993Two Plays: Fortune, My Foe & Eros at Breakfast. 1993A Return to Rhetoric. 1993The Cunning Man. 1994Two Plays: Hunting Stuart & The Voice of the People. 1994The Dignity of Literature. 1994A Christmas Carol Re-Harmonized. 1995A Gathering of Ghost Stories. 1995Animal U. 1995The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995. 1996Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts. 1997The Golden Ass, a Libretto. 1999For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995. 1999Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975. 2002The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master. 2005Selected Plays. 2008Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading. 2008Selected Works on the Art of Writing. 2008B 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. 1953Statement for playbill A Jig for a Gypsy. 1954Preface, “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. 1954Introduction 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. 1957Introduction 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. 1963Testimonial letter in Lulie Westfeldt’s F. Matthias Alexander: The Man and His Work. 1964Introduction 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. 1965Introduction to Horton Rhys’s A Theatrical Trip for a Wager! Through Canada and the United States. 1966Preface to Ronald Borg’s Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters. 1966The Centennial Play. 1967The Centennial Play program. 1967Program 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. 1972Foreword 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. 1975Autobiographical essay in World Authors 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors. 1975Preface to Abraham Rotstein’s Beyond Industrial Growth. 1976“Massey College” in William Kilbourn’s The Toronto Book: An Anthology of Writings Past and Present. 1976Statement in advertisement flyer, Masks of Satan. 1976Program note to the MacMillan Theatre’s production of “Pontiac and the Green Man.” 1977Chapter 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. 1978Tribute in The Pierre Berton Celebration Dinner. 1979“The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect” in Studies in Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy. 1980Introduction to “Hope Deferred” in Anton Wagner’s Canada’s Lost Plays, vol. 3, The Developing Mosaic: English-Canadian Drama to Mid-Century. 1980Introduction 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. 1982Foreword to Richard Perkyns’s Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984. 1984Introduction to John Cowper Powys’s Wolf Solent. 1984Introduction to Graham McInnes’s The Road to Gundagai. 1985Foreword 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. 1986Letter 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. 1989Introduction to Francis Thistleton’s How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona. 1989Statement 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. 1990Chapter 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. 1990Introduction 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. 1993Introduction 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. 1994Tribute 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. 1994Introduction to Marie Elena Korey’s Elegant Editions: Aspects of Victorian Book Design. 1995Untitled 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. 1995Afterword to Mavis Gallant’s Across the Bridge. 1996Foreword to Jerry Sontag’s Curiosity Recaptured: Exploring Ways We Think and Move. 1996Libretto 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. 2004C Section: Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Journals, Magazines, and Annuals)1923-19391940-19441945-19491950-19591960-19691970-19791980-2004D Section: Reports of Speeches, Lectures, and Public PresentationsE Section: Speeches and Lectures GivenF Section: InterviewsG Section: Unsigned Articles and EditorialsH Section: Translations (organized under each language)I Section: Films, Recordings by Davies, Audio Books, and BrailleJ Section: Contributions in Articles and Books by OthersIndex