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Description: | This is an extensive collection of material pertaining mainly to the theatrical career of Henry Irving compiled by his manager, Bram Stoker. The collection covers Lyceum Company productions of Shakespeare and other plays, in London and on tour, including tours to north America. It includes Irving's play texts, some annotated or abridged, programmes, tickets and playbills, menus and seating plans for after-performance dinners and other official or prestigious occasions, reviews, caricatures and photographs of Irving's stage career and extensive correspondence with Stoker and others. Material relating to Ellen Terry is also included. There is only a very small amount of material relating to Stoker's own literary career.; There is a Library catalogue available. Some material is also listed separately.
Shakespeare Centre Library, Shakespeare Centre, | Format: | Playbills Correspondence Press cuttings Photographs (miscellaneous) Books Ephemera, e.g. tickets Cartoons Playtexts (printed) Programmes Drawings | Subjects: | etc.); newspapers; caricatures and cartoons; letters Play scripts; texts; newspaper cuttings; sketches; telegrams newspapers Theater; theater-history-19th century; theater-history-20th century; theater programs; theatre-reviews; photographs; theatrical posters; clippings (books | Temporal: | 1880 1910 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon,,
CV37 6QW | Creator: | Stoker, Bram | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Playbills Correspondence Press cuttings Photographs (miscellaneous) Books Ephemera, e.g. tickets Cartoons Playtexts (printed) Programmes Drawings | Go to resource |
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