1981

Die vollkommene Leere

Stanisław Lem: »Die vollkommene Leere« (Doskonała próznia) Marcel Coscat: »Les Robinsonades« Patrick Hannahan: »Gigamesh« Simon Merril: »Sexpolosion« Alfred Zellermann: »Gruppenführer Louis XVI« Solange Marriot: »Rien du tout, ou la conséquence« Joachim Fersengeld: »Perycalypsis« Gian Carlo Spallanzani: »Der Idiot« (Idiota) »Do yourself a book« Kuno Mlatje: »Odysseus aus Ithaka« (Odys z Itaki) Raymond Seurat: »Toi« Alistar …

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The Nicholas Nickleby Story

Author’s Note Prologue The Circle Forms The Ball of String The Live Writer Scene Work Begins The Great Debate The New Year End of Term The Move North Structure and Design London at Last Play Two Progresses At the Rainbow Theatre First Night and the Critics Aftermath Cast Lists of the London Productions

Cats: The Book of the Musical

Concerning Cats ‘Up up up to the Heaviside Layer’   Andrew Lloyd Webber Apropos of Practical Cats   Valerie Eliot The Making of Cats   Trevor Nunn The choreographing of Cats   Gillian Lynne ‘A giant playground for cats’ – Designed by John Napier From the Libretto

Remembering Britten

Preface   Alan Blyth Benjamin Britten on Verdi and Peter Grimes Sir Peter Pears Beth Welford John Piper and Myfanwy Piper Marion Thorpe Sir Lennox Berkeley Peter Schidlof Sir Clifford Curzon Imogen Holst Sir Michael Tippett (reproduced from Music of the Angels, 1980) Joan Cross Sir Frederick Ashton Lord Harewood Hans Keller Steuart Bedford Miss Hudson …

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Rose-cheeked Laura, Come

original version for mezzo-soprano “of operatic range” with clarinet, viola and harp. Also published for SATB arranged by composer, and in a version for voice and piano.

Tales of Sir William Wallace

Introduction – Wallace Goes Fishing Wallace in Ayr Loudon Hill and After Wallace in the Lennox – His Mistress in Perth Betrays Him Wallace Slays Fawdoun – Wallace Falls in Love Wallace Marries Mirren – Heselrig Murders Mirren – Wallace is Revenged in Heselrig and the English – The Battle of Biggar – Wallace is …

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A Better Class of Person

No Pride in Real Gentry Uncalled-for Remarks ‘I Don’t Want to End Up in a Dead-and-Alive Hole’ ‘A Better Class of Person’ O Wall! Bugger Bognor Too Young To Fight and Too Old to Forget Deathaboys Tomorrow, the Empire ‘Must Leave Now to Take Down the Front-room Curtains’ Hold the Front Page Kindly Leave the …

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Moral Thinking

Levels Introduction Moral Conflicts The Archangel and the Prole Descriptivism and the Error Theory Method Another’s Sorrow Universalization Interpersonal Comparison Loyalty and Evil Desires Rights and Justice Point Fanaticism and Amoralism Prudence, Morality and Supererogation Objectivity and Rationality

William Szekspir: Kroniki

Inside back cover: Tablica Genealogiczna Królów i Książąt Występujących w Historycznych Tragediach Szekspira