Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913 at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished men-of-letters.

Bibliography

Essays

• Fictional essays
• The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
• The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
• Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
• The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (1985) (an omnibus of the three Marchbanks books, with new notes by the author)
• Criticism
• Shakespeare's Boy Actors (1939)
• ' (1942)
• Renown at Stratford (1953) (with Tyrone Guthrie)
• Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded (1954) (with Tyrone Guthrie)
• Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd (1955) (with Tyrone Guthrie)
• A Voice From the Attic (1960)
• A Feast of Stephen (1970)
• Stephen Leacock (1970)
• One Half of Robertson Davies (1977)
• The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1979) (edited by Judith Skelton Grant)
• Well-Tempered Critic (1981)
• The Mirror of Nature (1983)
• Reading and Writing (1993) (two essays, later collected in The Merry Heart)
• The Merry Heart (1996)
• Happy Alchemy (1997) (edited by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies)

Novels

• The Salterton Trilogy
• Tempest-Tost (1951)
• Leaven of Malice (1954)
• A Mixture of Frailties (1958)
• The Deptford Trilogy
• Fifth Business (1970)
• The Manticore (1972)
• World of Wonders (1975)
• The Cornish Trilogy
• The Rebel Angels (1981)
• What's Bred in the Bone (1985)
• The Lyre of Orpheus (1988)
• The "Toronto Trilogy" (Davies' final, incomplete, trilogy)
• Murther and Walking Spirits (1991)
• The Cunning Man (1994)

Short stories

• High Spirits (1982)

Plays

• Overlaid (1948)
• Fortune My Foe (1949)
• Eros at Breakfast (1949)
• At My Heart's Core (1950)
• A Masque of Aesop (1952)
• A Jig for the Gypsy (1955)
• A Masque of Mr. Punch (1963)
• Question Time (1975)
• Brothers in the Black Art (1981)
• Hunting Stuart (1994)
• The Voice of the People (1994)

Libretto

• The Golden Ass (1999)

Letters

• For Your Eye Alone (2000) (edited by Judith Skelton Grant)
• Discoveries (2002) (edited by Judith Skelton Grant)

Collections

• ' (2005) (collected by James Channing Shaw)