James Bridie - Selected bibliography, Quotations

Playwright, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He qualified as a doctor at Glasgow University and became a successful consultant. Always interested in the theatre, he seized his chance when the Scottish National Players produced his Sunlight Sonata in 1928, written under the pseudonym of Mary Henderson. After that, he wrote a stream of plays, among them The Anatomist (1931), Mr Bolfry (1943), and Dr Angelus (1947). He played a leading part in the foundation of the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre.

James Bridie was the pseudonym used by Osborne Henry Mavor (January 3, 1888, in Glasgow - January 29, 1951 in Edinburgh) who was a playwright, screenwriter and surgeon.

He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, then he served as a military doctor during World War I, seeing time in France and Mesopotamia.

Selected bibliography

Some Talk of Alexander - 1926 The Anatomist - 1930 Jonah and the Whale - 1932 One Way of Living - 1939 Daphne Laureola - 1949 Meeting at Night - 1956

Quotations

"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."