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A Short Biography of Robertson Davies

Author Name:

Robertson Davies

Born As:

William Robertson Davies

Other Names:

William Robertson Davies, CC, O.Ont, FRSC, FRSL

Born:

1913

Died:

1995




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Novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Salterton Trilogy
Tempest-Tost - 1951
Leaven of Malice - 1954
A Mixture of Frailties - 1958

The Deptford Trilogy
Fifth Business - 1970
The Manticore - 1972
World of Wonders - 1975

The Cornish Trilogy
The Rebel Angels - 1981
What's Bred in the Bone - 1985
The Lyre of Orpheus - 1988

The Toronto Trilogy - Davies' final, incomplete, trilogy
Murther and Walking Spirits - 1991
The Cunning Man - 1994

Short stories:

High Spirits - 1982

Plays:

Overlaid - 1948
Eros at Breakfast - 1948
Fortune My Foe - 1949
Hunting Stuart - 1949
The Voice of the People - 1949
At My Heart's Core - 1950
A Masque of Aesop - 1952
A Jig for the Gypsy - 1955
A Masque of Mr. Punch - 1963
Question Time - 1975
Brothers in the Black Art - 1981
[edit]Libretti
Jezebel - 1993
The Golden Ass - 1999

Letters:

For Your Eye Alone - 2000 - edited by Judith Skelton Grant
Discoveries - 2002 - edited by Judith Skelton Grant.

Essays:

Fictional essays:
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks - 1947
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks - 1949
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack - 1967
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks - 1985 - an omnibus of the three Marchbanks books, with new notes by the author

Criticism:

Shakespeare's Boy Actors - 1939 - as W. Robertson Davies
Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course - 1942
Renown at Stratford - 1953 - with Tyrone Guthrie
Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded - 1954 - with Tyrone Guthrie
Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd - 1955 - with Tyrone Guthrie
A Voice From the Attic - 1960
A Feast of Stephen - 1970
Stephen Leacock - 1970
One Half of Robertson Davies - 1977
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies - 1979 - edited by Judith Skelton Grant
The Well-Tempered Critic - 1981 - edited by Judith Skelton Grant
The Mirror of Nature - 1983
Reading and Writing - 1993 - two essays, later collected in The Merry Heart
The Merry Heart - 1996
Happy Alchemy - 1997 - edited by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies.                          
Mother 
Father Senator William Rupert Davies
Wife Brenda Mathews