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British writer (1900–1970)

V. C. Clinton-Baddeley (1900 – 1970) was a British playwright, actor, and writer. Clinton-Baddley also founded Jupiter Recordings Ltd, a company that produced spoken word and poetry set to music, in 1958. The recordings were made either by the poets themselves, or by actors and scholars. Jupiter Recordings featured recordings of works by Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, and Philip Larkin. Jupiter Records ceased functioning in 1970.

Published works

Plays

  • The Billiard-Room Mystery; or, Who D'you Think Did It: A Murder Mystery in Two Acts
  • Aladdin
  • The Babes in the Wood: A Cynical Pantomime in One Act
  • Dick Whittington, or, Love is the Key that Opens Every Door
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • The What D'ye Call it: An Opera (music by Phyllis Tate)

Books

  • Devon
  • Words for Music
  • The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre after 1660
  • All Right on the Night
  • Some Pantomime Pedigrees
  • Death's Bright Dart
  • My Foe Outstretch'd Beneath the Tree
  • Only a Matter of Time
  • No Case for the Police
  • To Study a Long Silence

References

  1. ^ "Collection: Jupiter Recordings Ltd". hdl:1903.1/7418.
  2. Roach, Helen (1967). "Poet Recordings". Improving College and University Teaching. 15 (3): 141–142. doi:10.1080/00193089.1967.10532633. JSTOR 27562696 – via JSTOR.
  3. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C.; Leacock, Stephen (1934). The Billiard-Room Mystery; or, Who D'you Think Did It: A Murder Mystery in Two Acts. London: Gowans & Gray; Boston: Baker International Play Bureau, 1934.
  4. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1935). Aladdin. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1959). Dick Whittington, or, Love is the Key that Opens Every Door. London and Sydney.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1959). Sleeping Beauty. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. Tate, Phyllis; Gay, John; Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1966). The What D'ye Call It: An Opera. Oxford U P.
  8. Tate, Phyllis. “The What D'ye Call It.” The Musical Times, vol. 107, no. 1481, 1966, pp. 591–593. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/951953. Accessed 21 Nov. 2020.
  9. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1925). Devon. London: A. & C. Black, ltd.
  10. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1941). Words for Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  11. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1952). The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660. Methuen.
  12. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1954). All Right on the Night. London: Putnam.
  13. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1963). Some Pantomime Pedigrees. London: Society for Theatre Research.
  14. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1967). Death's Bright Dart. London: Gollancz.
  15. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1968). My Foe Outstretch'd Beneath the Tree. London: Gollancz.
  16. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1969). Only a Matter of Time. London: Gollancz.
  17. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1970). No Case for the Police. London: Gollancz.
  18. Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. (1972). To Study a Long Silence. London: Victor Gollancz.


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