Peake, Mervyn Laurence, 1911-1968

  • Boy in darkness (Episode 13 of 29, Part 2 of 3)

    Dramatic reading of Mervyn Peake’s Boy in Darkness, the second installment of Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy featuring the hero Titus Groan, on WBAI’s Mind’s Eye Theatre. Venturing into a trackless waste from his ancestral castle, Titus falls in love with two villains, a hyena and a goat, who deliver him into the hands of one of the…

  • Boy in darkness (Episode 13 of 29, Part 3 of 3)

    Dramatic reading of Mervyn Peake’s Boy in Darkness, the second installment of Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy featuring the hero Titus Groan, on WBAI’s Mind’s Eye Theatre. Venturing into a trackless waste from his ancestral castle, Titus falls in love with two villains, a hyena and a goat, who deliver him into the hands of one of the…

  • Boy in darkness (Episode 13 of 29, Part 1 of 3)

    Dramatic reading of Mervyn Peake’s Boy in Darkness, the second installment of Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy featuring the hero Titus Groan, on WBAI’s Mind’s Eye Theatre. Venturing into a trackless waste from his ancestral castle, Titus falls in love with two villains, a hyena and a goat, who deliver him into the hands of one of the…

  • Titus groan (Episode 1 of 29)

    Dramatic readings from the first installment of the “Gormenghast” trilogy by British science fiction author Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), adapted for WBAI’s Mind’s Eye Theatre by kind permission of the U.S. publisher Weybright and Talley. The novels concern the enclosed, created world of the great castle of Gormenghast and its inhabitants, ruled by ritual and torn…

  • The Gormenghast trilogy: a discussion with Maeve Peake and Jonathan Williams

    American poet Jonathan Williams speaks with Maeve Peake, wife of English author, poet and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), about the books that comprise The Gormenghast Trilogy. Permission to use this tape was provided courtesy of the Library at the University of California, Los Angeles and Jonathan Williams.