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A Comic Paraphrase on Shakespear's Seven Ages

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    A Comic Paraphrase on Shakespear's Seven Ages

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of official copies of plays submitted for licensing between 1737 and 1824. Most of copies were written by professional copyists. Approximately 95 of the plays submitted were printed texts, either whole or partial. These have been cataloged individually and may be searched in the online catalog.

    LA 222

  • Man and Wife; or, Shakespeare Jubilee

    Man and Wife; or, Shakespeare Jubilee

    Manuscripts

    Songs are sung by characters from Shakespeare's plays. Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee is also represented, along with the bustle of Stratford-upon-Avon.

    mssLA 296

  • The Tempest. Opera, 3 acts. David Garrick, from William Shakespeare

    The Tempest. Opera, 3 acts. David Garrick, from William Shakespeare

    Manuscripts

    Shakespeare's The Tempest first published in 1623.

    mssLA 123

  • John E. Owens in his famous pathetic & comic characters

    John E. Owens in his famous pathetic & comic characters

    Visual Materials

    Image of a central vignette of a family sitting in a dining room on a snowy evening while a man lies dead on the ground next to a gun outside and a couple embraces in a barn, captioned "Dot, or the cricket on the hearth," with a top center vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens in formal dress, seven vignettes of portraits of Owens dressed as characters, captioned "Perkyn Middlewick the butterman," "Joshua Butterby," "Paul Pry," "John Unit," Major Wellington de Boots," Solon Shingle," and Dr. Pangloss, L.L.D. & A.S.S.," and six additional smaller vignettes of dramatic scenes.

    priJLC_ENT_000313

  • Coriolanus

    Coriolanus

    Manuscripts

    Thomson's 'Coriolanus' is loosely based on Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name.

    mssLA 74

  • Florizel and Perdita

    Florizel and Perdita

    Manuscripts

    Manuscript copy containing a few corrections by Garrick. An adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'The Winters Tale'.

    mssLA 122