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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 66
Rare Books
The connection with Shakespeare's play is obscure. "The 1594 edition of The Taming of A Shrew is now generally thought of as a ‘bad’ quarto of Shakespeare’s play. It appears to be a memorial reconstruction by actors of The Taming of the Shrew, with assistance from an unknown writer, and was probably written in 1592." -- cf. the British Library.
69594
Manuscripts
Manuscript notice states, There are so many Alterations and Omissions since your Perusal of this Piece that We have ventur'd to lay it again before You; some erasures and corrections; text marked with brackets and X; prologue. An earlier copy of this play was refused licence.
mssLA 196
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Manuscripts
No application. Prod. (as altered?) Olympic, Feb. 1, 1821. Printed copy, Roach's Edition, n.d.: much MS alteration, deletions, interpolated songs, and new prologue; cast of a performance at Lyceum printed, and new cast inserted in MS. (Dated Olympic, Jan. 26, 1821, in B.C., and described as A Tragical Burletta.) Comp. The Tailors (Or Quadrupeds) a Tragedy for Warm Weather, 1836 (122095): printed portions identical (though a different ed.); alterations not printed. See LA 269 and 1684, the latter another alteration of the same play, using some of the same songs as this MS.
LA 2202
Manuscripts
Adaptation from the Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher first published in 1647. This version was probably altered by Garrick although it is not on any list of works edited by him. The play is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The gender roles are reversed and it is the husband Petruchio who is 'tamed' by his wife Maria.
mssLA 133
Visual Materials
Image of a political cartoon parodying Republican efforts to play down the antislavery plank in their platform during the 1860 elections; editor Horace Greeley stands at left reassuring a man identified as "Young America" who points insistently toward Abraham Lincoln at right; presidential candidate Lincoln sits atop a makeshift construction made of rails marked "Republican Platform" which imprisons a grinning African American man.
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