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Interpretations of
Shakespeare
Archives & Special Collections
Research Guide
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Introduction
This research guide acts as an introduction to materials related to Shakespeare
held within the Archives and Special Collections at the Penryn Campus. By their
very nature as rare, unique or specialised items, these materials are often a little
harder to locate, and this guide aims to highlight items that you might not
otherwise have immediately come across.
The following list is not exhaustive, and aims to be a supplement (not substitute)
to your usual information-finding techniques and the wealth of material available
in our book, journal, visual and electronic collections.
For further information on these holdings, or items held elsewhere that may be
relevant to this subject, please contact [email protected] or your Academic
Liaison Librarian.
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Archive Collections
These items are totally unique materials that you will not find at another Library,
and as such they will bring an original angle to your work. These may be
accessed, on a reference only basis by appointment, via the Archive Team
in The Reading Room on L2 of the Library. Please email [email protected] or
pop in to arrange a viewing.
The Nick Darke Archive
Although Darke, a playwright based in Cornwall, never adapted a piece of
Shakespeare’s work, he did run a School’s workshop based on his interpretation
of Romeo and Juliet. The Collection also contains a number of playbills from
Darke’s time as an actor at the Victoria Theatre in Stoke, where he sometimes
acted in Shakespeare’s plays.
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CPA1/254 Notebook 1984-5
Notebook relating to the use of Romeo & Juliet as a text in teaching.
Contains analysis of the reoccurring themes and timespan of the play,
along with exercises for group activities, including the creation of a staterun Radio station in Verona and activities based around how Shakespeare
uses time to tell the story and the functions of time within plays. Also
includes a discussion on the use of symmetry as a dramatic device and a
contemporary interpretation of the story focusing on the issues cruise
missiles and two warring villages (in place of two families). Also includes
questions related to how a production of Romeo & Juliet could be used to
make to make political points.
The following playbills often contain promotional images of productions which
illustrate costumes & staging:
• CPA1/384 Playbill - Richard II: 30 October 1973
• CPA1/385 Playbill featuring King Lear: 1971
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CPA1/393 Playbill - Measure for Measure: 1971
CPA1/400 Playbill - A Winter’s Tale: 1972
Camborne School of Mines Archive
Although an unlikely resource for the study of Shakespeare, the School’s run of
historic Magazines offer a broad range of articles, including:
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CSM/I/1/2/28 CSM Magazine Vol. XII No.2 February 1908
'A CSM Shakespeare' An article adapting Shakespeare into Camborne
School of Mines terms.
The Tom Cross Archive
Tom Cross was a former Principal of Falmouth University. His Archive includes
sketchbooks that he kept throughout his whole career, including:
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FCP3/B/1/2
Sketchbook 1956
Sketchbook from Cross’ time at the Slade. Includes scene by scene
analysis of Peter Brook's production of Hamlet, including sketches of
staging (Likely to relate to Book's production of Hamlet at The Pheonix
Theatre, London, starring Paul Schofield. This production was also
broadcast live on ITV in February 1956).
Patrick Gale: Manuscripts and Unpublished work
Gale’s novel ‘Tree Surgery for Beginners’ may be read as an adaptation of A
Winter’s Tale, telling the story of Tree Surgeon Lawrence Frost on a Caribbean
cruise following the disappearance, and reappearance, of his wife. You may find
it easier to first read the published version of the play - available in main library
stock 823.914 GAL
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FCP1/A/8/1/1 Manuscript notebooks of Tree Surgery for
Beginners c1996
Handwritten draft of the novel.
The Kneehigh Archive
Cornish Theatre Company Kneehigh produced an adaptation of Cymbeline in
2006-8, commissioned by the RSC. The adaptation was untraditional, and
related to the spirit of the play, rather than to the letter. It was described by
many as ‘irreverent’ due to Kneehigh’s use of contemporary physical and
devised theatre techniques. Cymbeline toured the UK, along with Columbia and
Brazil. We hold many production and promotional records relating to the
production.
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AC2010-003 Box 1
o Shakespeare Quarterly Summer 2007, vol. 58, no. 2 (includes
review)
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AC2010-003 Box 4
o General Report for British Council 2008 – includes analysis,
audience evaluation, Press Cuttings, programme, CD of images
(355) and recording of full dress rehearsal
o Chapter about Cymbeline photocopied from unknown book
o Programme & poster for Cymbeline in Sao Paulo 30th March 2008
o Kneehigh Cymbeline business cards
o Programme March 2008 Columbia
o Letter regarding an evaluation of the response to the Sao Paulo
performances
o Proposal by Artistic Director, Emma Rice
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AC2010-003 Box 15
o CD of 366 images of Cymbeline in Brazil - rehearsals and opening.
Photographer: Daniel Spalato
o CD of 355 images of Cymbeline in Brazil – rehearsals.
Photographer: Daniel Spalato
o 3 boxed invitations – Friends of Kneehigh performance 18 & 26
August 2006
o Lighting plan for Sao Paulo production
o Script with stage management notes
o Posters for Cymbeline at Restormel Castle, Lostwithiel, Cornwall
August – September 2006
o Flyers for performance at Lyric Hammersmith 17th January – 3rd
February
o 2006 UK touring flyer
o Budget proposal for Restormel Castle production 2006
o Cymbeline programme (includes a short introduction on why
Cymbeline was chosen to be performed)
o Teachers’ Newsletter Winter 06/ Spring 07 leaflet with Cymbeline
featured
o Royal Shakespeare Company - The Complete works yearbook 2006
–2007. Includes Kneehigh’s Cymbeline Sept 2006, Swan Theatre
p46-7
o Royal Shakespeare Company – Festival Guide April 06 – April 07
Stratford-upon-Avon, includes Kneehigh’s Cymbeline Sept 2006,
Swan Theatre p14
o Draft script
o Published script [This is also available in main book collection
822.92 RIC]
Historical records of Dartington College of Arts
Dartington College of Arts merged with the then University College Falmouth in
2010. We hold a number or images of student productions, including the
following directed by Joe Richards:
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AC2010-012 Os Bundle 81
• King John, 1975
• Hamlet, 1977
• Hamlet, 1984
The Woolf Slide Collection
Charles Woolf was a local photographer who travelled Cornwall capturing images
of local events, including these of Shakespeare productions. All items are
digitised.
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ICS12/2327
Likely to be Julius Ceasar at The Minack, West Cornwall Theatre Group,
July 1953
ICS12/5452-5457
Likely to be Measure for Measure at The Minack, Cambridge University
Players, August 1961
ICS12/16375-16380
Images of Romeo & Juliet at The Minack by the West Cornwall Theatre
Group, July 1979. Illustrates costumes and staging of key scenes.
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Special Collections
These items are listed on the library catalogue, but are not housed with the main
book Collection due to their specialist nature. They may be accessed, largely on
a Reference Only basis, in The Reading Room on L2 of the Library.
Gorseth Kernow Bardic Collection
This Collection contains books written by and about Bards of the Gorseth of
Cornwall, including the Shakespeare Scholar A L Rowse.
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What Shakespeare read - and thought by A L Rowse 1981 822.33 (SHA)
ROW
My view of Shakespeare : the Shakespeare revolution by A.L. Rowse,
1996 822.33 (SHA) ROW
Shakespeare the man by A. L. Rowse, 1973 822.33 (SHA) ROW
William Shakespeare : a biography by A L Rowse, 1963 822.33 (SHA)
ROW
Chris Brooks Collection of Victorian Culture
This Collection offers a view on how the Victorians interpreted and understood
Shakespeare, including:
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A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1880 822.33
(SHA) SWI
A History of English Literature, Legouis & Lazamian, 1933 820.9 LEG
A History of English Literature, H A Taine, 1906 820.9 TAI – see Volume
II Chapter IV
The Brooks Collection also contains a selection of Victorian periodicals which may
be browsed for articles to illustrate a contemporary understanding of
Shakespeare. For example:
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The Cornhill Magazine 802.8 COR
Strand Magazine 805 STR
The Harmsworth Magazine 805 HAR
The Argosy 805 ARG
All The Year Round 805 ALL
Elmhirst Collection
This Collection consists of the private library of Dartington Hall founders Leonard
and Dorothy Elmhirst and reflects their broad and often eclectic interest in arts
and culture. This includes editions of Shakespeare’s plays (including facsimiles
of the First Folio - browse at classmark 822.3 SHA) and relevant analytical texts
as follows:
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Moonlight at The Globe, Ronald Watkins, 1946 822.3 SHA/WAT
An Essay based on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Harrow
School – with illustrations and extensive notes on staging, music,
costumes etc.
Shakespeare Identified, Thomas Looney, 1919 822.3 SHA/LOO
The seminal work that argues the true author of Shakespeare’s work to be
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
Shakespeare on the Soviet Stage, Mikhail M Morozov, 1947 822.3 SHA
An examination of staging of Shakespeare in the Soviet Union.
The Essential Shakespeare, J Dover Wilson, 1946 822.3 SHA/WIL
The Elizabethan Stage, E K Chambers, 1923 822.3
Bill Douglas & Peter Jewell Special Collection
This Collection specialises in film history; it contains many texts on adaptations
of Shakespeare’s plays including those acted in and directed by Laurence Olivier
in the 1940s and 1950s. Many titles contain stills and essays illustrating staging,
design and costume.
Titles relating to Olivier adaptations include:
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Laurence Olivier and the art of film making, Dale Silviria, 1985
791.430233092 (OLI) SIL
With particular focus on Henry V (1944) and Hamlet (1948)
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Olivier Shakespeare, compiled by Peter Whitehead & Robin Bean, 1966
791.43657 OLI
A photographic record of Olivier’s Shakespearian films.
The film Hamlet: a record of its production, Brenda Cross 1948 791.4372
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Hamlet: the film of the play, Alan Dent, 1948 822.33 (SHA) HAM
Includes Foreword by Laurence Olivier.
Titles relating to other adaptations:
• Romeo & Julliet: a motion picture edition 791.4372 ROM
Book to accompany MGM production of 1936.
• Julius Ceasar 822.33 SHA
Book to accompany MGM production of 1953. Includes play rewritten as a
children’s story.
• Macbeth: the making of the film, Clayton Hutton, 1960 791.4372 MAC
• King Lear: The Space of Tragedy. Diary of a film director, Grigori
Kozinstev, 1977 [film 1972] 791.430233092 KOZ
• Henry V: Screen adaption, Kenneth Branagh, 1989 791.437 HEN
The many film annuals within the Collection, such as Preview (791.4305 PRE)
and the Picture Goers Film Annual (791.43 PIC) may also contain contemporary
responses to these film adaptations.
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Streatham Campus Heritage Collections
Special Collections and the Bill Douglas Museum on University of Exeter’s
Streatham campus hold large amounts of material on various understandings
and adaptations of Shakespeare. Please email [email protected] for further
details.
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