The collection consists of material relating to Peter Barnes, which was created and accumulated by Bernard Frank Dukore in the course of his research on the work of the British dramatist and screenwriter. Material includes incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence between Dukore and Barnes, dating from 1978 to 2004; copies and typescripts of original plays, adaptations, and scripts by Peter Barnes, some of which are inscribed or annotated; audio recordings of BBC productions of Barnes's plays and copies of commercially-released films and television programs featuring scripts by Barnes on VHS and DVD-R; photographs and programs relating to the production of Barnes's plays; correspondence between Dukore and Gisele Joly, the French translator of Barnes's play Red Noses; transcripts of interviews with Barnes conducted by Dukore; and numerous clippings and photocopies of published writings by Barnes and about Barnes by Dukore.