| W. O. Mitchell says that he has written as many as four hundred radio plays, the majority of them in the Jake and the Kid series which aired on CBC Radio in the early 1950's.;This thesis is an annotated bibliography which offers the Mitchell scholar access to all W. O. Mitchell radio plays in the Special Collections at the University of Calgary Libraries, in both the W. O. Mitchell Papers and the Morris Surdin Papers, thereby opening a range of research possibilities. In the main entries, each radio play episode is summarized both in sentence form and by key words, then indexed in a variety of ways: alphabetically, chronologically, by key word, by character name, by actor and actress, by producer and director, and by composer and conductor. Above all, the thesis attempts to document the range of connections between the radio plays and Mitchell's fiction published in book form, the area of Mitchell's work with which most scholars are primarily engaged. The general commentary which accompanies the bibliography and indexing introduces a variety of suggestions for research topics. This annotated bibliography will serve the student of W. O. Mitchell's fiction, stage and radio drama, as well as Canadian stage and radio drama in general. (Abstract shortened by UMI.). |
