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Books About Buchanan

1902

March:
The Peep O’ day boy: a Romance of ’98

April 8:
The Night Watch
(a one-act play)

October 3:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s cantata, Meg Blane.

1903

February 2:
Robert Buchanan: Some Account of His Life, His Life’s Work and His Literary Friendships by Harriett Jay.

1904

July 14
‘The Ballad of Judas Iscariot’ is published by A. C. Fifield in the ‘Simple Life’ series.

1905

April:
The Maiden Queen
(a comic opera by Buchanan and Jay, music by Florian Pascal, copyright performance only)

1906

September:
When Knights Were Bold
(originally Good Old Times by Buchanan and Jay)

1908

Libretto of The Maiden Queen published by Joseph Williams Ltd.

1909

March 30:
Hubert Bath’s setting of The Wedding of Shon Maclean.

The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown published by Samuel French Ltd.

1910

January:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s
Part-songs, op. 73a, (including ‘O mariners, out of the sunlight’ and ‘O who will worship the great god Pan?’) published by J. Curwen & Sons.

September 20:
Dr. Frederic Cowen’s cantata, The Veil (based on Buchanan’s The Book of Orm).

Die goldene Ritterzeit by Charles Marlowe (a German translation of When Knights Were Bold by Siegfried V. Lutz) is published in Berlin by Bloch.

1913

February:
Fra Giacomo: or, The Count’s Revenge

Phil Blood’s Leap

The Wake of O’Connor ‘An Irish Rhapsody’
composed by Hubert Bath.

1914

June 13:
The Shamrock and the Thistle, another unofficial adaptation of Lady Kilpatrick, is produced at the Theatre Royal, Brisbane, Australia by Mr. C. E. King’s Royal Dramatic Company.

July:
Cecil Coles’ setting of Fra Giacomo.

Sweet Nancy published by Samuel French Ltd.

1915

August 9:
Alone in London

September13:
The Trumpet Call

William H. Spear’s setting of In The Garden.

1916

The Charlatan

When Knights Were Bold

Il Cavaliere del Silenzio (Italian version of When Knights Were Bold)

1918

God and the Man

Matt

Cuthbert Clarke’s setting of Phil Blood’s Leap.

1920

A Man’s Shadow

The Lights of Home

The English Rose

1923

Love In An Attic (short film version of Buchanan’s poem, The Little Milliner)

La Donna e l’Uomo (Italian version of Buchanan’s novel, Woman and the Man)

1929

When Knights Were Bold

1933

August:
Sweet Seventeen, a musical comedy by Worton David, Alfred Parker, Bruce Sievier and Colin Wark, based on The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown.

1935

August:
Tulip Time, (formerly Sweet Seventeen) starts a succesful run in London.

1936

When Knights Were Bold

1939

The libretto of Tulip Time is published by Samuel French Ltd.

1943

April:
Kiss The Girls (aka The Knight Was Bold) a musical version of When Knights Were Bold, book by Harriett Jay, Emile Littler and Thomas Browne, music by Harry Parr-Davies, lyrics by Barbara Gordon and Basil Thomas.

1947

Richard Purvis’ setting of The Ballad of Judas Iscariot.

1969

November:
Donald Swann’s Soliloquy for Autumn includes a setting of part of The Ballad of Judas Iscariot.

1973

Robert W. Buchanan by John A. Cassidy

1982

An illustrated edition of The Ballad of Judas Iscariot is published by the Old Stile Press.

2004

The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Belgian ‘black metal’ band, ‘Paragon Impure’, released on their EP, In Commemoration of Ish Kerioth.

2005

Paul Pilott’s Judas Iscariot, The Church Cantata inspired by The Ballad of Judas Iscariot.

2007

A German translation by Peter M. Richter of God and the Man published as Christian.

2009

April:
Douglas DaSilva’s Song of the Slain for soprano and piano.

2017

A German translation by Peter M. Richter of The Martyrdom of Madeline is published as Madelines Martyrium.

2021

A German translation by Peter M. Richter of A Marriage By Capture is published as Die Entführung.