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- ID
- a55
- Title
- The Spider Love: A Play in Three Acts.
- Genre
- Play
- Publication Year
- 1946
- Document Types
- Unexamined Writings
- Unpublished Writings
- Original Typescript (tss)
In The World in Ripeness (p. 120), Bates writes that he followed his play Day of Glory "with a dark, Ibsen-like piece called The Spider Love...but its demands on actors are incontestably formidable and it is probably for this reason that it has never been performed."
A typescript (pp. 139) is held at the Museum of the English Rural Life at the University of Reading (https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-...).
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