V.C. Clinton-Baddeley

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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.[1] Jupiter Recordings featured recordings of works by Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, and Philip Larkin.[2] Jupiter Records ceased functioning in 1970.[1]

Published works[edit]

Plays[edit]

  • The Billiard-Room Mystery; or, Who D'you Think Did It: A Murder Mystery in Two Acts[3]
  • Aladdin[4]
  • The Babes in the Wood: A Cynical Pantomime in One Act
  • Dick Whittington, or, Love is the Key that Opens Every Door[5]
  • Sleeping Beauty[6]
  • The What D'ye Call it: An Opera[7] (music by Phyllis Tate)[8]

Books[edit]

  • Devon[9]
  • Words for Music[10]
  • The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre after 1660[11]
  • All Right on the Night[12]
  • Some Pantomime Pedigrees[13]
  • Death's Bright Dart[14]
  • My Foe Outstretch'd Beneath the Tree[15]
  • Only a Matter of Time[16]
  • No Case for the Police[17]
  • To Study a Long Silence[18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "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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