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From: Peter Lewis, 106066.2074
To: karsten, INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
Date: 10/29/00 7:25 PM
RE: Baa Baa Black Sheep
The story is discussed in Roger Lancelyn Green, Kipling and the
Children (London, Elek Books, 1965; by Edmund Wilson in 'The Kipling that
Nobody Read', reprinted in Andrew Rutherford (ed.) Kipling's Mind and Art
(Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1964); and by Philip Mason in Kipling: the
Glass, the Shadow and the Fire, (London, Jonathan Cape,1975). The fullest
account I know of the autobiographical background to the story is in Andrew
Lycett's recent biography (now available in paperback). Thomas Pinney,
ed., Something of Myself and Autobiographical Writings (Cambridge
University Press, 1990) includes Kipling's own illustrations to the story,
never previously published.
There was an adaptation for TV , made by Granada and starring Freddy
Jones as Punch and Eileen McCallum as Aunty Rosa, which was shown on ITV on
21st April, 1974. Among the favourable reviews quoted in the Kipling
Journal for Sept. 1974 were one in the Times, 22nd April 1974, and one by
Clive James in the Observer, 28th April 1974. I don't know if a copy of
the film was kept, but you could get some idea of it from these reviews.
Hope this may be of some help to you. Lisa Lewis
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