Stage Works
- The Sunlight Sonata, or To Meet the Seven Deadly Sins. Farce-morality;
prologue and epilogue, 3 scenes. Produced Glasgow, Lyric Theatre (Scottish
National Players), Mar. 20, 1928.
- The Switchback. Play, 3 acts. Produced Birmingham Repertory
Theatre, Mar. 9, 1929.
- What It Is to Be Young. Play, 3 acts. Produced Birmingham
Repertory Theatre, Nov. 2, 1929.
- The Anatomist. Drama, 3 acts. Published 1931. Produced Edinburgh,
Lyceum Theatre, July 6, 1930; London, Westminster Theatre, Oct. 7,
1931.
- The Girl Who Did Not Want to Go to Kuala Lumpur. Comedy,
3 acts. Produced Glasgow, Lyric Theatre (Scottish National Players),
November, 1930.
- Tobias and the Angel. Comedy,
3 acts. Published 1931. Produced Cambridge, Festival Theatre, Nov.
20, 1930.
- The Pardoner's Tale. Morality, 1 act. Published 1930. Based
on Geoffrey Chaucer's tale.
- The Dancing Bear. Comedy, 3 acts. Produced Glasgow, Lyric
Theatre (Scottish National Players), Feb. 2, 1931.
- The Amazed Evangelist. Comedy, 1 act. Published 1931. Produced
London, Westminster Theatre, Dec. 12, 1932.
- Jonah and the Whale. Play,
prologue and 3 acts. Produced London, Westminster Theatre, Dec. 12,
1932.
- A Sleeping Clergyman. Play,
2 acts. Produced Malvern, Festival Theatre, July 29, 1933.
- Marriage Is No Joke. Melodrama, 2 acts. Produced Glasgow,
King's Theatre, January, 1934; London, Globe Theatre, Feb. 6, 1934.
- Colonel Witherspoon, or The Fourth Way of Greatness. Comedy,
3 acts. Published 1934. Produced Glasgow, Lyric Theatre (Scottish National
Players), Mar. 23, 1934.
- (With Claude Gurney). Mary Reed. Play, 3 acts. Produced London,
His Majesty's Theatre, Nov. 21, 1934.
- The Black Eye. Comedy, 2 acts. Published 1935. Produced London,
Shaftesbury Theatre, October, 1935.
- (Adaptation). Storm in a Teacup. Play. Produced London, Royalty
Theatre, Feb. 5, 1936. Based on Bruno Frank's Sturm in Wasserglas.
- Susannah and the Elders. Play, 3 acts. Produced London, Duke
of York's Theatre, Oct. 31, 1937.
- The King of Nowhere. Play, 3 acts. Published 1938. Produced
London, Old Vic, Mar. 15, 1938.
- Babes in the Wood. Quiet farce, 2 acts. Published 1938. Produced
London, Embassy Theatre, June 13, 1938.
- The Last Trump. Play, 2 acts. Published 1938. Produced Malvern,
Festival Theatre, Aug. 5, 1938; London, Duke of York's Theatre, Sept.
13, 1938.
- The Kitchen Comedy. Radio play, 1 act. Produced Glasgow,
British Broadcasting Corporation, Nov. 18, 1938.
- The Letter Box Rattles. Play. Published 1938.
- What Say They? Play, 2 acts. Produced Malvern, Festival Theatre,
Aug. 7, 1939.
- The Sign of the Prophet Jonah. Radio play. Produced British
Broadcasting Corporation, 1942. Version of Jonah and the Whale.
- The Dragon and the Dove or How the Hermit Abraham Fought the Devil
for His Niece. Play, 2 acts. Produced Glasgow, Lyric Theatre,
August, 1942; London, Arts Theatre, Mar. 9, 1943.
- Jonah 3. Play. Produced Manchester, November, 1942. Revised
version of Jonah and the Whale.
- Holy Isle. Play, 3 acts. Produced London, Arts Theatre, Dec.
11, 1942.
- A Change for the Worse. Play. Produced London, Arts Theatre,
Mar. 9, 1943.
- Mr. Bolfry. Play, 4 scenes. Produced London, Westminster
Theatre, Aug. 3, 1943.
- It Depends What You Mean. Play, 3 acts. Published 1949. Produced
London, Westminster Theatre, Oct. 12, 1944.
- The Forrigan Reel. Ballad opera, 2 acts. Published 1949.
Produced London, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Oct. 24, 1945.
- Lancelot. Play, 2 acts. Published 1945.
- Paradise Enow. Play, 1 act. Published 1945.
- Dr. Angelus. Play, 3 acts. Published 1949. Produced Edinburgh,
June 23, 1947; London, Phoenix Theatre, July 30, 1947.
- John Knox. Play, 3 acts. Published 1949. Produced Glasgow,
Citizens' Theatre, Aug. 18, 1947.
- Gog and Magog. Play. Produced London, Arts Theatre, December,
1948.
- Daphne Laureola. Play, 4 acts. Published 1949. Produced London,
Wyndham's Theatre, Mar. 23, 1949.
- The Golden Legend of Shults. Play, 3 acts. Produced Perth,
Scotland, Perth Theatre, July 24, 1949.
- Mr. Gillie. Play, prologue and 2 acts. Published 1950. Produced
Glasgow, Feb. 13, 1950; London, Garrick Theatre, Mar. 9, 1950.
- The Queen's Comedy. Play. Produced Edinburgh, Lyceum Theatre,
Aug. 21, 1950.
- The Baikie Charivari
or The Seven Prophets. Miracle play, 2 acts.
Published 1953. Produced Glasgow, Citizens' Theatre, Oct. 6,
1952.
- (With Archibald Batty). Meeting at Night. Play. Produced Glasgow,
Citizens' Theatre, May, 1954.
- The Pyrate's Den. Play.
- The Tragic Muse. Play.
- (Adaptation). The Wild Duck. Play. Based on Henrik Ibsen's
Vildanden.
- (Adaptation). Liliom. Play. Based on Ferenc Molndfs play of
the same name (1909).
- (Adaptation). Hedda Gabler. Play. Based on Ibsen's play of
the same name.
- (Adaptation). The Misanthrope. Play. Based on Molière's Le
Misanthrope.
CRITICISM
- W. Bannister, James Bridie and His Theatre, London, 1955;
- U. Gerber, James Bridies Dramen, Bern, 1961;
- G. Weales, Religion in Modern English Drama, Philadelphia,
1961;
- H. L. Luyben, James Bridie: Clown and Philosopher, Philadelphia
1965;
- M. Nentwich, Der 'schottische' Shaw; Untersuchungen zur dramtischen
Werk von James Brdie, Frankfurt, 1977
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