The Doctor and the Devils, and Other ScriptsThe Doctor and the Devils is the scenario for a feature-length film. This tale of murder is based on the famous case of the Scottish body-snatchers Burke and Hare, who thrilled newspaper readers in the mid-nineteenth century and whose crimes are still relished among homicide buffs today. Giving full reign to the macabre, Thomas created characters and an atmosphere worthy of his best short stories. There are also other Thomas scripts: his unfinished screen adaptation of Maurice O'Sullivan's autobiographical memoir Twenty Years A-Coming, with a synopsis of Thomas's probable approach to its completion; a short radio play, produced by the BBC in 1946 and directly related to the later Under Milk Wood; with an essay in which Ralph Maud traces the textual relationship; and a group of captions in verse for photographs in the British magazine Lilliput. |
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Alice ANNABELLA Ballydavid Bennet Billy Bedlam birds Blasket Body-snatchers bottle Burke and Hare City cliff climbing CLOSE SHOT CLOSE-UP comes Cooas crowd crying curragh Daddo dancing darkness dead devil DISSOLVE Doctor Rock door doorway drink Dylan Thomas ELIZABETH eyes face Fallon and Broom father Flynn girl goes GRANDFATHER GWEN hair hand head hear Hocking island Jennie Bailey Kate Laugharne LILY LONG SHOT look Market Mauraid Maurice and Mickil Maurice and Tomas Maurice O'Sullivan MAURICE'S VOICE melodeon Milk Wood mistress morning move murdered Murray Nelly night nods noise Old Woman Padrig Policeman rags rags and bones razorbills Resurrectionists ROCK'S ACADEMY round runs SECOND GENTLEMAN Shaun shawl shouting singing sitting sleep slowly smiling Softly stands staring stops straw street suddenly takes tavern tea-chest there's Tigue Tomas's top-hat walking Webb whisper window women young
References to this book
The Drama Scholars' Index to Plays and Filmscripts: A Guide to Plays and ... Gordon Samples No preview available - 1980 |