MICROFORM MATERIALS IN ENGLISH, FILM & THEATER
This guide lists microform collections at the UIUC Library that are useful for the study of
American, English, and Anglo-Irish literatures as well as theater and film. Most are located in the
Main Stacks and others can be found in the English Library,the Rare Book Room, or the Undergraduate
Library.
Included are microfilm and microfiche copies of reference works, manuscript
collections,interviews, periodicals, scrapbooks, prompt books, and other formats. Microform sets
devoted to individual authors (with the exception of Shakespeare) are omitted from this guide.
Collections of five reels or less of microfilm are also excluded. Note that some of the collections
are uncataloged and thus are not listed in the UIUC Online Catalog. The sets have all been assigned
a number and are listed here in alphabetical order by title.
Contents
-1- American Film Institute / Louis
B. Mayer Oral History Collection
-2- American Literary Manuscripts
from the Huntington Library
-3- American Periodicals: 1741-1900
-4- American Women's Diaries
-5- Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in
Microfiche Facsimile
-6- Archives of the Federal Writers'
Project
-7- Black Literature, 1827-1940
-8- British Literary Manuscripts
from Cambridge University Library
-9- British Literary Manuscripts
from the British Library
-10- British Literary Manuscripts
from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.: The English Renaissance, Literature from the
Tudor Period to the Restoration c.1500-c.1700
-11- British Literary Manuscripts
from the National Library of Scotland
-12- British Literary Manuscripts
in the Bodleian Library
-13- British Periodicals, 17
th-19
th Century: Literary
-14- Daly's Theater Scrapbooks
-15- Design by Motley: Set and
Costume Designs 1932-1976 in the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
-16- Dictionary of Old English
-17- The Early and Central Middle
Ages, c.650 - c.1200: The Manuscript Record
-18- Early British Periodicals
-19- Early English Books: 1475-1640
-20- English Literary Periodicals
-21- Federal Writers' Project:
Slave Narratives
-22- First Line Index of Manuscript
Poetry in the Huntington Library
-23- History of the Philadelphia
Stage between the Years 1749-1855
-24- Manuscripts of the Irish
Literary Renaissance
-25- Medieval Literary and
Historical Manuscripts in the Cotton Collection
-26- The Mullin Collection of
Theatre at Stratford-Upon-Avon
-27- New York Theater: 1919-1961
-28- 19th Century American
Literature and History
-29- Old English Concordance
-30- Prompt Books and Actors Copies
[of the Theatre Museum at the Victoria and Albert Museum]
-31- Prompt Books of Shakespeare's
Plays
-32- Prompt Books of Shakespeare's
Plays as Performed in Stratford-Upon-Avon
-33- Royal Shakespeare Theatre:
Shakespearean Prompt Books 1976-1985
-34- Royal Shakespeare Theatre:
Theatre Records
-35- Shakespeare and the Stage
-36- Shakespeare at
Stratford-upon-Avon
-37- Shakespeare in Context
-38- The Shattuck Collection of
Shakespeare Promptbooks
-39- The Thomason Tracts: 1640-1661
-40- Three Centuries of English and
American Plays: 1500-1830
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CALL NO.: MFICHE791.43AM352 (UGX)
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PUBLISHER: New York Times Oral History Project
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PUBDATE: 1977-78
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FORMAT: Microfiche
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Pt. I: 97 fiche
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Pt. II: 200+ fiche
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Transcripts of interviews with influential early Hollywood film
figures and ofseminars on various film topics. Many of the topics are technical--e.g. lenses,camera
innovations--or evaluative--e.g. the art of Lucille Ball.
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ARRANGEMENT: Transcripts of interviews are in alphabetical order by name of
interviewee. Transcripts of seminars are in chronological order.
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CONTENTS: Part I is a collection of individual interviews with 25 people who were
influential in the early years of the American film industry (c. 1915-1945). It covers a broad
range: inventors of film technology, directors, writers, musicians, agents, producers, and
technicians. Most interviews were conducted in the early '70s. Part II contains transcripts of 195
seminars on many different early film figures, includingaactors and actresses such as Fritz Lang.
Listed below are the names of the 25 individual interviews. The seminar topics were too many to
list.
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Eric M. Berndt, inventor
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John Brahm, director Howard Kock, writer
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Ridgeway Callow, director Mitchell Leisen
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Floyd D. Crosby, photog. Abraham Polonsky, writer
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Norman O. Dawn, photog. Harold Rosson, photog.
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Early sound editors George Seaton, writer-dir
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Hugo Friedhofer, music John F. Sertz, photog.
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Tay Garnett, director Geoffrey Shurlock
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Joseph Gershenson Donald O. Stewart, writer
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George R. Groves, sound James G. Stewart, sound
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George J. Hoffman Harold N. Swanson, agent
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David S. Horsley Harry Warren, songwriter
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Bronislaw Kaper, music Crane Wilbur
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Undergraduate library has a locally-prepared
typewritten list of contents kept on the counter to the right of the microfilm cabinets (when
facing theccabinets).
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Oral history--motion pictures (United States); Motion
pictures--United States--early years; Actors and Actresses--United States--Careers; Motion picture
directors--United States.
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CALL NO.: FILM810.8AM3525 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Research Publications
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PUBDATE: 1989
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FORMAT: Microfilm
- 6 Reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Includes all verse, short stories, prose fiction, plays, satirical
and humorouswritings "by native or naturalized authors" from 1650-1850, and a few authorswhose
works extend beyond 1850. Also includes sermons, speeches, belles lettres, and journals of literary
interest. All manuscripts chosen are there in their complete form.
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CONTENTS:
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--Reel One--
- Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
- Avery, Benjamin Parke, 1828-1875
- Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812
- Briggs, Charles Frederick, 1804-1877
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
- Byrd, William, 1772-1799
- Chivers, Thomas Holley, 1809-1841
- Clark, Willis Gaylord, 1808-1841
- Clifton, William, 1772-1799
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
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--Reel Two--
- Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
- Dana, Richard Henry, 1787-1879
- Derby, George Horatio (John Phoenix, pseud.), 1823-1861
- Drake, Joseph Rodman, 1795-1820
- Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
- Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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--Reel Three--
- Green, Bartholomew, 1666-1732
- Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867
- Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
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--Reel Four--
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (cont.)
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--Reel Five--
- Judson, Emily (Chubbuck), 1817-1854
- Lewis, Estelle Anna Blanche (Robinson), 1824-1850
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
- Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
- Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766
- Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863
- Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864
- Morton, Sarah Wentworth (Apthorp), 1759-1846
- Munford, William, 1775-1825
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--Reel Six--
- Norton, Andrew, 1786-1853
- Odell, Jonathan, 1737-1818
- Osgood, Frances Sargent (Locke), 1811-1850
- Ossoli, Sarah Margaret (Fuller), 1810-1850
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
- Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860
- Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
- Percival, James Gates, 1795-1856
- Poe, Edgar Allen, 1790-1849
- Sedgewick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867
- Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley), 1791-1865
- Webb, Benjamin, 1695-1746
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
- Wharton, Charles Henry, 1748-1833
- Wilde, Richard Henry, 1789-1847
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
- Woodworth, Samuel, 1785-1842
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: A printed introduction and guide accompany the
collection.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: American literature--Colonial period. Ca.
1600-1775--Manuscripts; American literature--Revolutionary period. 1775-1783--Manuscripts; American
literature--1783-1850--Manuscripts; Authors. American--Manuscripts.; Manuscripts. American.
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3- American Periodicals: 1741-1900
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CALL NO.: Broad classification
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PUBLISHER: University Microfilms
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PUB. DATE: 1979
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FORMAT: Microfilm.
- Three collections:
- 18th Century: 33 reels
- 1800-1850: 1,966 reels
- 1850-1900: 771 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION:
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- American Periodicals, 18th Century (APS I) contains 88 periodicals, including the earliest
periodicals of1741 to the likes of the Columbian Magazine and the American Museum of Philadelphia,
as well as the MassachusettsMagazine of Boston and the New-York Magazine.
- American Periodicals, 1800-1850 (APS II) contains 923 periodicals. Included are many religious,
women's, and children'smagazines, which were numerous at this time. Godey's Lady's Book, the
Juvenile Port-Folio, the Saturday Evening Post,and the New York Mirror were a few prominent
journals of the day.
- American Periodicals, 1850-1900 (APS III) contains 117 periodicals highlighted by Civil War and
Reconstruction writings aswell as early published works of many notable American authors.
Significant periodicals include Putnam's MonthlyMagazine, Vanity Fair, and Ladies' Home
Journal.
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ARRANGEMENT: The various periodicals are scattered throughout the UIUC libraries.
In order to find a particularperiodical one should search for it by title using the online catalog
for the UIUC libraries.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is a detailed 341 page guide in the microform
room to accompany the collection featuring indexes by title, subject, editor, and reel number. The
guide is by Jean Hoornstra and its call number is: 016.051Am35 (STX/RBX/REX/NEX) A CD-ROM version
of the index is in the Reference Room (REX). This guide recommends the following other
sources:
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- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: covers nearly 100 of the journals in APS II and APS III
topic (050P783)(STX) (REF)
- 19th Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature 1890-1899 51 periodicals author, topic,
and illustrator access
- A History of American Magazines 5 vol set 1741-1930 title, editor, contributor, topic Frank
Luther Mott (REF)(050.91M84H)
- A History and Bibliography of American Magazines 1810-1820 Neal L. Edgar describes periodicals
themselves, register of pirnters, publishers, editors, engravers (FILM 050.91ED3H) (STX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: American periodical series, eighteenth century; American
periodical series, 1800-1850; American periodical series, 1850-1900
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4- American Women's Diaries
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CALL NO: FILM305.40975AM35 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Research Publications
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PUBDATE: Segment I: 1983; Segment II: 1988; Segment III: 198?
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FORMAT: Microfilm
- Segment I: 22 reels (New England Women)
- Segment II: 19 reels (Southern Women)
- Segment III: 29 reels (Western Women)
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NOTE: Reproduction quality of some frames make legibility difficult (overexposure;
ink showing through the page from theverso; fading ink)
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REVIEWS: Microform Review 16/3 (Fall '87), p. 237
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION:
- The three segments published so far contain the personal diaries of 8 New England, 32 Southern
women,and a legion of Western women from the 19th century. The women were mostly from middle or
upper-middle class families.Their diaries span the 1820's to the 1890's. The purpose of making them
available in this form is to give a vivid picture of thedaily lives of nineteenth century American
women.
- The New England diaries were filmed from the handwritten originals housed at the American
Antiquarian Society, inWorcester, MA. Most of the diaries concern family, social and religious
activities of the women. There are many short poemsinterspersed in the diaries.
- The Southern diaries came from various archives--the University of Virginia, and the University
of Alabama, to name two. Anumber of the diarists were related by blood or marriage, which makes it
possible to see certain incidents from several pointsof view. The diaries can be grouped into "life
diaries"--those begun as a young woman and maintained throughout life; Wardiaries--recording the
life they lived during the Civil War; and situation diaries--recording a trip to Europe or a
choleraepidemic, for example. At least one diarist was a Black woman. Excerpts from some of the
diaries have been published.
- The Western diaries are not described very well. Many of the entries are brief interviews or
responses to questionnairesadministered by the Utah Works Progress Administration (Ogden, UT) in
the 1930's and 1940's. The guide to the Westerndiaries contains a copy of the questionnaire given
to the pioneer women.
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ARRANGEMENT: The collection is divided into "Segments", each a geographic region
of the U. S.: Segment I: NewEngland; Segment II: the South, etc., Segment III: Western Women.
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CONTENTS:
- Segment I: New England Women
- Bascom, Ruth Henshaw Park, Louisa Adams
- Drew, Abigail Gardner Ripley, Sally
- Forbes, Susan Parsons Brown Rogers, Martha
- Gale, Hannah White, Caroline Barrett
- Segment II: Southern Women
- Bacot, Ada W Howell, Mary Davis (Hook)
- Brandon, Zillah (Haynie) Huff, Sarah
- Brown, Mary Davis Jackson, Eveline Harden
- Burge, Dolly Sumner (Lunt) LeConte, Emma Florence
- Carney, Kate S. Lines, Jane (Akenhurst)
- Clitherall, Carolyn (Burgwin) McCreary, Millie J.
- Cocke, Louisa (Maxwell) McKaig, Priscilla (Beall)
- Crawford, Martha (Foster) McLellan, Harriet (Tatem)
- Crawford, Sarah A. (Gayle) Moore, Cornelia (Jackson)
- Cumming, Kate Mordecai, Emma
- Dawson, Sarah (Morgan) Pringle, Elizabeth
- Eaton, Harriet Ready, Alice
- Gayle, Sarah (Haynesworth) Robertson, Frances
- Gray, Sarah (Burge) Seawell, Molly Elliott
- Greene, Cloe (Whittle) Whittle, Grace Latimer
- Hort, Mary
- Segment III: Western Women
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:Each diary is preceded by references giving the
author's name and inclusive dates of entries.Each segment is accompanied by a guide. In it are
profiles of the diarists (in alphabetical order by surname), descriptions oftopics in the diaries,
and a reel-by-reel itemization of contents. The Guide to Segment I (New England Women) contains
atopical index. The Guide to Segment II contains a few paragraphs about each woman and her life,
times, and diary as well as abibliography for each diarist. The Guide to Segment III only covers
reels 1-15 and is listed alphabetically by last name ofdiarist, giving a brief description of the
work and the reel and readex number.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Diaries, Women's--19th Century; United States Civil
War--Diaries--Women
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5- Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile
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CALL NO.: MFICHE829.08AN46 (EGX)
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PUBLISHER: Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies
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PUBDATE: 1994-present
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FORMAT: Microfiche
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LANGUAGE: Anglo-Saxon (ca.600-1100)
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DESCRIPTION: Vol.1: Books of Prayers and Healing ; Vol.2: Psalters I; Vol.3:
Anglo-Saxon Gospels; Vol.4: GlossedTexts, Aldhelmiana, Psalms
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CONTENTS: 4 volumes in the series thus far. Manuscripts are reproduced in toto
including post-Anglo-Saxon materials.There are quite detailed descriptions of the contents of each
volume in the printed volume guides.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Each manuscript is assigned a main series catalogue
number which is concorded with Ker and Gneuss. A listof ASM numbers will be issued along with
cumulative indexes and concordances with Ker numbers. A general index andincipit index will be
published at the conclusion of the series.
See:
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts. Medieval--England.; Manuscripts. English
(Old)
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6- Archives of the Federal Writers' Project
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CALL NO.: FILM081AR25 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester Microform
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PUBDATE: 1986-
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FORMAT: Microfilm -- 35 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: This collection includes all the published works of the Federal
Writers' Project (known as the Federal Writers' Program after 1939), excluding its state guides
series. The FWP was a part of the WPA (Works Progress Administration), a New Deal employment
program for the unemployed during the Great Depression. The project spanned the years 1933 to 1943,
providing work and employment for thousands of writers. The main FWP archive is in the Library of
Congress. The archive contains 630 linear feet or about 400,000 items. This microform collection
includes the publications and surveys. Other important parts of the archives, such as the Slave
Narrative Project (see collection description elsewhere in this guide), have appeared in print and
or are in other microform collections and so are not included in this collection.
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ARRANGEMENT: In two series. Series One is broken into three parts, alphabetically
arranged by states: 1) Alabama toIllinois, 2) Indiana to New York, and 3) North Carolina to Wyoming
and regional publications. Series Two has not yet beenacquired.
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CONTENTS (Series One)
- The publications range widely, on all topics: health precautions, bowlingtournament guides,
city guides, church histories, and so forth. The materials canbe grouped into a number of
categories:
- City and county guides: Examples are guides for Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky.
- Historical booklets: Examples are
Abe Lincoln in Illinois,
Great Spanish Liberators, and the history of the First Presbyterian Church of
Chicago.
- Summaries of the socio-ethnic studies of the FWP: Examples are
Cavalcade of the American Negro and
The Armenians of Massachusetts.
- Industrial and labor studies:
Flax in Oregon,
Intra-Urban Mobility in Omaha, and
Annals of labor and Industry in Illinois are just a few.
- Social and Community issues: Health pamphlets, guides to cultural organizations, and guides to
education.
- Original poetry and plays: Includes poems and plays by Elma Scheel, Flora Rivola, Jill Spargur
and others. There are radio transcripts by Riley Hughes. Even writings by L. Frank Baum in South
Dakota . . .
- Ephemera: For example,
Baseball in Old Chicago or
Autumn Hikes.
- Folk-lore:
The Crow Legend of Creation,
The Havasupai and the Hualapai, to name a few. These works grew out of the Folk-lore
research projects sponsored by the FWP.
- Included are early works of many writers--for example, Conrad Aiken, Nelson Algren, Saul
Bellow, and Richard Wright.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Guide which accompanies collection has reel-by-reel
description of contents. Includes an Author index and title index.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Federal Writers' Project--1933-1943; Folklore--United States;
Works ProgressAdministration; American literature--1930-1940; Library of Congress--Archives.
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7- Black Literature, 1827-1940
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CALL NO: MFICHE810.8B5612 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Chadwyck-Healey
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PUB. DATE: Unit 1: 1990
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FORMAT: Microfiche
- Unit 1: 198 microfiche
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NOTE: Reproduction quality excellent.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: The collection contains literature published in Black periodicals in
the United States between 1827 and 1940. Typical periodicals were the early Freedom's Journal
(Albany, NY), Opportunity (N.Y.), Voice of the Negro (Atlanta), Colored American Magazine (Boston),
and Rising Sun (Kansas City). The literature is mainly fiction (both short and novel-length),
poetry, book reviews, and literary notices. Book reviews were included if they contained a judgment
of a literary work. Literary notices were pieces which refer to literary matters.
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CONTENTS: Black authors, being denied publishing outlets by mainstream American
institutions, turned to their own local publications. The writings have literary interest and
provide material to fill in the literary history of Black Americans. They also have social and
historical importance for understanding the Black American experience in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. In the collection are writings by many unknown nineteenth century Black
writers; Harlem Renaissance writers including Langston Hughes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar; and
translations of foreign Black writers such as Alexandre Dumas and Alexander Pushkin. Not all were
Black, either; witness several articles by Julia Ward Howe in the collection.
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ARRANGEMENT: For Unit 1, each microfiche is numbered and each frame in each
microfiche is also numbered. References in the index are to microfiche and frame number. The
microfiche are in chronological order.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Unit 1 is accompanied by a guide/index. The index
contains an author index and a title index.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Periodical literature--U.S; African-Americans--Periodical
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8- British Literary Manuscripts from Cambridge University Library
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CALL NO: FILM820.8 B7775 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester Microform
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SERIES: Britain's Literary Heritage
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PUBDATE: Series 1 (Medieval): 1984; Series 2 (Renaissance): 1988.
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FORMAT: Microfilm
- Series 1: 49 reels
- Series 2: 35 reels.
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REVIEW: Series 1 (Medieval Mss): Microform Review 14/3 (1985), pp. 184-5.
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LANGUAGE: English, with French and Latin
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NOTE: Reproduction is mostly quite good but there are some underexposed frames and
blurring.
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DESCRIPTION:
- This collection is composed of two series. Series One contains British literary manuscripts
from the Medievalperiod (approximately 1150 to 1500). There is no overlap in manuscripts included
with the "Early and Central Middle Ages"collection (see above). Included are creative literary
forms: poetry, drama, or prose. This means that there are manuscripts ofsaints' lives, homilies,
romances, and legends. Chronicles are excluded. Authors included in this series are Chaucer,
Hoccleve,Lydgate, Wycliffe, and many others.
- Series Two contains manuscripts of works from the English Renaissance (approximately
1500-1700). Major and minorauthors are included. Verse, drama, creative prose, and occasional
letters where they have literary interest, are included.Sermons by significant authors (e.g. Donne)
are included. There are commonplace books, as well. Well represented areBacon, Spenser, Donne,
Milton, William Dunbar, Beaumont, and Sidney.
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ARRANGEMENT: The "Two-letter" manuscripts are arranged in the microfilms in class
order, followed by the Additionalmanuscripts in numerical order.
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CONTENTS:
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SERIES 1: Medieval
- Part 1: Manuscripts Dd.I.1 to Ff.VI.55 (Reels 1-17)
- Dd.I.1; I.17; II.33; III.13; III.45; III.53 (SectionII); IV.24; IV.26; IV.54;IV.64; V.53; V.55;
V.64; VIII.19; X.17; XI.78; XI.82; XI.89; XII.39;XII.69; XIV.26 (pt.3); XV.21;
- Ee.I.12; I.20; I.25; II.15; III.59; IV.26; IV.31; IV.35; IV.37; V.11; VI.6;VI.11; VI.29;
VI.38
- Ff.I.6; I.14; II.20; II.38; III.11; III.24; IV.9; V.30; V.35; V.36; V.40; V.45;V.48; VI.2;
VI.12; VI.13; VI.15; VI.17; VI.31; VI.33; VI.34; VI.50; VI.53;VI.55
- Part 2: Gg.I.1 to Ii.VI.55 (Reels 18-34)
- Gg.I.1; I.7; I.14; I.32; I.34; II.6; IV.5; IV.6; IV.10; IV.18; IV.25; IV.27;IV.31; IV.32; V.31;
VI.17; VI.26; VI.28; VI.42
- Hh.I.7; I.8; I.11-13; III.13; IV.3; IV.11-13
- Ii.I.2; I.22; I.26; I.31; I.36; I.38; I.40; III.11; III.21; III.24; III.26; III.30;IV.9; V.41;
VI.1; VI.11; VI.23; VI.26; VI.39; VI.40; VI.43; VI.55
- Part 3: Kk.I.3 to Oo.VI.110; Add. Mss. (Reels 35-49)
- Kk.I.3; I.5 (Pts 1, 5, 6, 7); I.6; I.7; I.9; III.29; IV. 13; IV.20; IV.25; IV.26;V. 30; VI.20;
VI.26; VI.41
- Ll.I.8; I.15; II.5; II.17; IV.3; IV.14; V.18
- Mm.II.5; II.21; IV.42; V.14; V.15; V.37; VI.4; VI.5; VI.15; VI.17; VI.21
- Nn.III.2; III.10; IV.12
- Oo.VI.110
- Add. 43; 850; 2604; 2823; 2829; 2830; 2993; 3035; 3037; 3039; 3042;3096; 3137; 3573; 4122;
4325; 5338; 5943; 6686; 6693; 6864.
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SERIES 2: English Renaissance
- Part 1: Double Letter series
- Dd.II.43; III.20; III.63; III.73; III.78; III.85; III.87; IV.55; V.75; V.77; VI.8; VI.23;
VI.43; VI.79; IX.14; IX.23; X.60; XI.44; XI.73; XIV.3; XIV.5; XIV.7; XIV.8; XIV.17; XIV.26 (Pts
7,9); XIV.28 (vol. I); XIV.30 (vol. II no. 8)
- Ee.II.30; II.32; III.53; IV.14; V.14; V.16; V.18; V.23; VI.42; VI.43
- Ff.II.9; II.35; IV.12; IV.13; IV.16; IV.18; IV.21; V.14; V.21; V.25; VI.28
- Gg.I.29 (Pts. 1,2); II.1; II.28; III.26; IV.13
- Hh.I.9; VI.6; VI.7
- Ii.V.9; VI.35
- Kk.I.3 (Nos. 1-10, 14-19); I.5 (vol. II); II.16; V.14; V.21; VI.30
- Ll.III.10; III.11; V.10
- Mm.I.24; I.40 (Baker 29); I.43 (Baker 32); I.45 (Baker 34); I.47 (Baker36); II.23 (Baker B);
II.24 (Baker C); IV.2; IV.13; IV.24; V.1; V.5; V.8;VI.13; VI.33
- Nn.IV.5 (nos. 1,2)
- Part 2: Additional Manuscripts; Keynes Collection
- Add. 11; 20; 22; 24; 27; 29; 32; 34; 40; 42; 46; 57; 59 (Nos. I,II, & III);79, Adv.d.38.5-6
(formerly Add.154); Adv.b.81 (formerly Add.337); 711; 3009; 3117; 3873; 4138
- Basil Montague Collection: Add. 4326-4331; 4334-4338; 4752; 4753;5778; 5962; 6160; 6339
- Add. 6375; 6413; 6846; 7078; 7112; 7196; 7316; 7338; 7514 (Vols. I, II,and III); 7565; 7583;
7769; 7913; 7958; 7968; 7976; 7977; 8131
- Sir Geoffrey Keynes Collection: Add. 8447; 8451; 8459; 8460; 8466-8471; 8540.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Reel 1 has full descriptive entries taken from the
catalog of manuscripts of the library (see below). The relevant catalog entries are also reproduced
at the beginning of each reel. There is a Guide that lists the manuscripts reel-by-reel. For the
manuscripts in Reels 44-49 there are complete descriptive entries in the guide because there are
none in the printed catalog for those manuscripts.
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FILMX 016.091 C141856
A Catalog of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge : University Press, 1856. (RBX)
- NOTE: This is out of date.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts, British--Medieval; Manuscripts,
British--Renaissance; CambridgeUniversity Library (Cambridge, Eng.)
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9- British Literary Manuscripts from the British Library
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CALL NO: FILM 820.8B7771, no. 1, 2, and 3 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester
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SERIES: Britain's Literary Heritage
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PUBDATE: 1984, 1985
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FORMAT:
- Microfilm Series 1 (Renaissance): 109 reels
- Series 2 (18th Century): Pt.1, 25 reels; Pt.2, 19 reels; Pt.3, 7 reels
- Series 3 (Medieval): 42 reels
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REVIEWS:
- Series 1: Microform Review 17/2 (May 1988), pp. 97-98
- Series 3: Microform Review 16/1 (Winter 1987), pp. 57-58
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LANGUAGE: English (some French, Latin, and Greek)
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DESCRIPTION:
- This collection of literary manuscripts from the British Library is in three Series. Series One
has manuscriptscontaining poetry, drama, narrative fiction, essays and other types of prose dated
within the years 1500-1700. Any volumecontaining more than one-tenth of such material was included.
All volumes included are complete. Commonplace books areincluded, diaries and correspondence
excluded. Writers included are Sidney, Donne, Dryden, Fletcher, Skelton, Crashaw,Herrick; court
masques of Ben Johnson; Milton's Paradise Lost; and works of Hobbes.
- Series Two has manuscripts containing creative literary forms, including various genres of
poetry, drama, and prose, from the18th century. They are taken primarily from the Sloane and
Additional manuscript collections. Again, all volumes in thesecollections containing more than
one-tenth of such material were included. Each volume is filmed in its entirety. Excluded
arecorrespondence, diaries, tracts, and travels. Some Greek and Latin material is included.
Included are manuscripts of the worksof Pope (his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey),
journals of Samuel Johnson's tours of Wales and France, manuscriptsof Thomas Chatterton and
Laurance Sterne. In addition are Blake, Cowper, Burns, and Thomas Percy, editor of Reliques
ofAntient English Poetry.
- Series Three offers manuscripts containing poetry, drama, chronicles, alchemical tracts,
mystical writings, Wycliffite texts, and other texts that show the range of medieval English
writing. Included are Chaucer's works, Langland, Gower, Lydgate, Hoccleve, mystical works by Walter
Hilton and Richard Rolle, and Robert Thornton's literary miscellany, among others. Some Cotton
Collection manuscripts are included, but they do not overlap with those in Harvester's selection in
its Cotton Collection (see above).
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ARRANGEMENT: Series 1 has six Parts. Series 2 has three Parts. Series 3 has two
Parts. In each case they are arranged bycollection name and class number.
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CONTENTS: Given the great number of manuscripts, they cannot all be listed here.
Manuscripts from the following BLcollections are included:
- Series 1
- Part 1: 16th and 17th century mss from Sloane 20 to 3943 and Additional 4128 to 10305 (reels
1-18)
- Part 2: 16th and 17th century mss from Additional 10306 to 30303 (reels 19-36)
- Part 3: 16th and 17th century mss from Additional 30982 to 63054 (Reels 37-53)
- Part 4: 16th and 17th century mss from the Sloane and Additional, Arundel, Burney, Cotton,
Egerton, Hargrave, and Lansdowne collections
- Part 5: 16th and 17th century mss from the Royal and Kings' and Stowe collections
- Part 6: 16th and 17th century mss from the Harleian and Egerton collections
- Series 2
- Part 1: 18th century mss from the Sloane and Additional collections
- Part 2: 18th century mss from the Burney, Egerton, Harleian, King's, Lansdowne, and Stowe
collections
- Part 3: 18th century mss from the Edward Gibbon collection.
- Series 3
- Part 1: medieval mss from the Sloane and Additional collections, Section A
- Part 2: medieval mss from the Additional Manuscripts, Section B
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Reel-by-reel list of contents in the "Inventories"
(one for Series 1 parts 1-3; another for Series 1 parts 4-6; one for Series 2; and one for Series
3). For manuscripts that have printed descriptions in the bibliographies (below), that is all
provided; for those not described in printed bibliographies, the Inventories provide verbatim
transcripts of the descriptions in British Library catalogs. At the start of each film,
descriptions from the printed catalogs are included for the applicable manuscripts. In Series 2,
each description is placed immediately before the applicable manuscript. One caveat: these are
often out of date and inaccurate.
- The published catalogs are:
- 016.091B77CAT Catalog of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. London : British
Museum. (REX)
- A.091B77CA Catalog of Manuscripts in the British Museum. New Series. London : British Museum.
Vol. 1. PartI.--Arundel; Part II--Burney; Part III--Index. (STX)
- F.A.091B774C Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum.
London : BritishMuseum, 1802. (STX)
- 016.091B77CH Catalogue of Manuscripts of Sir Francis Hargrave. London : British Museum.
(STX)
- F.A.091B7773C Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum. London : British
Museum. (RBX)
- XQ.A.091B77CR Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and Kings' Collections. London
: British Museum.(RBX)
- A.091B77CS Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum. London : British Museum.
(STX)
- F.016.091B77ED1808 Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts 1-7639 in the British Museum. London :
British Museum. (STX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts, British--Medieval; Manuscripts,
British--1500-1700; Manuscripts, British--1700-1800; British Library (London)
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10- British Literary Manuscripts from the Folger Shakespeare Library,Washington
D.C.: The English Renaissance, Literature from the TudorPeriod to the Restoration
c.1500-c.1700
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CALL NO: FILM820.8F711B (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester Microform
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SERIES: Britain's Literary Heritage
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PUBDATE: 1986
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FORMAT: Microfilm
- Part 1: 15 reels
- Part 2: 15 reels
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LANGUAGE: English, with Latin
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DESCRIPTION: Holograph vols., commonplace books etd. Containing chiefly drama,
poetry, orations, sermons, etc. but alsoincluding recipes, correspondence, lists, etc. Over 300
mss. of 16th and 17th century literary materials. Elizabethan andJacobean dramatic mss. including
Marlowe, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Middleton are featured as well as a host of poets.
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CONTENTS:
- Pt.1: Folger mss. C.c.1 (Item 17)-V.a. 358 (reels 1-15)
- Pt.2: Folger mss. V.a. 363-Bd. w.J 131 (reels 16-30)
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is a 3 volume Catalog of Manuscripts of the
Folger Shakespeare Library (G.K. Hall, Boston, 1971), reproducing the card catalogue of the library
(Q.016.091F71C) (RBX). There is also a guide accompanying the microfilm with detailed, reel by reel
listings and an index of authors and short titles.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts--Washington (D.C.); English literature;
Manscripts. English
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11- British Literary Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland
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CALL NO.: FILM820.8N213B (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester Microform
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SERIES: Britain's Literary Heritage
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PUBDATE: 1986
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FORMAT: Microfilm
- Part 1 (Medieval & Renaissance): 20 reels
- Part 2 (18th Century): 19 reels
- Parts 3-4 (19th Century): 31 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION:
- Part 1: Scottish and other British literary manuscripts from the Advocates' Library and other
collections inthe National Library of Scotland. The medieval collection contains renowned and
unique romances and ballads.
- Part 2: Eighteenth-century Scottish writers featuring Burns, Mackenzie, and Ramsay. Other
writers include Hume, Rogers,Thomson, Boswell, Motherwell, and DeQuincey. There are also materials
relating to Ossianic poetry and collections ofwritings by aristocratic families and such things as
songbooks.
- Part 3-4: Highlights include works of Hogg, Carlyle, de Quincey, Thackeray, R.L. Edgeworth,
Elizabeth Bell, Sir DavidErskine, Alexander Campbell, and ballad and folk material collected by
Thomas Wilkie among others.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Principal finding aids include the printed,
five-volume National Library of Scotland Catalogue ofManuscripts (Edinburgh 1938-1984),
supplemented by additional typescript volumes held only at the library itself. There isalso a
Summary Catalogue of the Advocates' Manuscripts (1970). The microfilm also comes with a guidebook,
listing thecontents of the reels.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts, English--Scotland--Edinburgh; Manuscripts,
Scottish--Scotland--Edinburgh; Englishliterature--Early Modern. 1500-1700--Manuscripts; English
Literature--18th century--Manuscripts; English Literature--19thcentury--Manuscripts;
Manuscripts--Scotland--Edinburgh
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12- British Literary Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library
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CALL NO: FILM820.8B632B (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester Microfilm
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SERIES: Britain's Literary Heritage
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PUB. DATE: Series I: 1988
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FORMAT: Microfilm
- Series I: 26 reels (Part 1: 17 reels; Part 2: 9 reels; Part3: 17 reels)
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NOTE: Reproduction quality ranges from excellent to overexposed.
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REVIEWS: Microform Review 19/1 (Winter '90), p. 44-45.
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LANGUAGE: English, Latin
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DESCRIPTION:
- The collection contains manuscripts of literature and supporting materials from about 1500 to
about 1700 inthe Bodleian Library. Part 1 contains 96 manuscripts from the Rawlinson Poetry
collection. Authors included are Sidney,Jonson, Cowley, Herrick, Donne, Elkannah Settle, Thomas
Neale, and Henry Peacham. It also contains a number ofmiscellanies and commonplace books.
- Part 2 contains manuscripts from three Bodleian collections. In particular, the English Poetry
class of manuscripts containsmany of the basic texts of Donne, Marvell, Traherne, King, and
Southwell. There is a large selection of Recusant poetry. Thereare a number of commonplace verse
books, and a group of sermons which include sixteen by Donne. Well known manuscriptsare the Dowden
manuscript (Eng. Poet. e.99) containing 107 manuscript poems by Donne, and the Phillipps manuscript
(Eng.Poet. f.9) containing 92 poems and the Paradoxes and Problems. The Dobell folio (Eng. Poet.
c.42) contains many worksby Thomas Traherne. Eng.Poet.d.3 contains a number of plays by Ben
Jonson.
- Part 3 contains manuscripts from ten Bodleian collections, not exlusively literary in scope.
The collections include interestingand valuable verse by Donne, Carew, Drayton, Sidney, Browne,
Jonson, Beaumont & Fletcher, Ralegh, Davies, SimonForman, Marlowe, prose by Donne, and drama by
Ruggles and Wren, and songs with words by Beaumont & Fletcher,Breton, Campion, Donne, Jonson,
Massinger, Ralegh, Shakespeare, and Wotton.
- Selection criteria include both "major authors" and lesser writers. Letters and documents are
excluded. All creative literaryforms are included.
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CONTENTS:
- Part 1:
- Rawlinson Poet. 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18-20, 23-31, 33, 37, 39, 56, 58, 60- 62, 64-67, 71, 79,
80, 82-88, 92, 94-100,103-105, 107, 108, 110, 116, 117, 120, 123, 125-127, 142, 146-148, 152-154,
159, 160, 166, 169, 170, 172, 174, 178,180, 182, 185, 198, 199, 201, 202, 204-206, 209-214,
216-219, 246.
- Part 2:
- Eng. Misc. d.28; e.5; e.13; e.536; f.89; f.653.
- Eng. Poet. b.5; c.18; c.42; c.50; c.52; c.53; d.2; d.3; d.49; d.53; d.152; e.2; e.4; e.5; e.14;
e.30; e.32; e.34; e.37; e.41;e.51; e.56; e.57; e.97; e.99; e.112; e.113; e.122; e.127; e.151; f.1;
f.6; f.9; f.10; f.16; f.25; f.27.
- Eng. Th. c.71; e.102.
- Part 3:
- Mss. Additional a.48, 104, 267, 301, 368, b.97, 108, 109, c.165, 209, 281.
- Mss. Ashmole 36, 37, 38, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 767, 768, 1153, 1378, 1480, 1143,
1486II.
- Mss. Aubrey 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- Mss. Bodleian 22, 30, 165, 166, 431, 910, 1030.
- Ms. Cherry 19.
- Ms. Clarendon 127.
- Mss. Don. b.8, 9, c.24, 54, 55, 57, 67, 55, 57, 67, d.55, 58, e.6, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24,
f.5.
- Mss. Douce 43, 86, 170, 261, 277, 280, 286, 357, 361, f.5.
- Ms. Fairfax 40.
- Mss. Firth c.15, 16, d.14, e.4.
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ARRANGEMENT: By class number.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Each manuscript on microfilm is preceded by its name
and class number.
- Series I is accompanied by guides for Part 1 and Part 2. These guides contain a reel-by reel
list of manuscripts, and excerptsfrom the Summary Catalog (see below) for each manuscript.
- X016.0910X2Bs Summary Catalog of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Oxford:
1895-1935. (RBX/STX)
- 016.82108F519 First Line Index to Poetry in the Bodleian Library Manuscripts Collection.
Oxford: 1969. (RBX/STX/EGX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts, British--1500-1700; Bodleian Library (Oxford,
Eng.)--Manuscripts
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13- British Periodicals, 17
th-19
th Century: Literary
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CALL NO.: FILM820.5BRI (STX)
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PUBLISHER: University Microfilms
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PUB DATE: 1968
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FORMAT: Microfilm -- 31 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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CONTENTS:
- Reels 1-20: Academy & Literature. London. 1-90 (no 1-2270) Oct.9, 1869 - Sept. 1916.
- Reels 20-21: Athenaeum. (Aiken) London. 1-5, Jan. 1807 - June 1809.
- Reel 21: Bentley's Quarterly Review. London. 1-2, Mar. 1859-Jan. 1860.
- Reels 21-22: Dome. London. no. 1-5, Mar. 1897 - May 1898; nsv 1-7, Oct. 1898 - July 1900.
- Reel 22: Dublin Saturday Magazine. Dublin. 1-2, 1865-1867.
- Reels 23-27: Edinburgh Annual Register. Edinburgh. 1-19, 1808-1826.
- Reel 28: Edinburgh Monthly Review. Edinburgh. 1-5, Jan. 1819-Jan. 1821.
- Reel 29: Foreign Review. London. 1-5, 1828-1830.
- Reel 29: Leigh Hunt's London Journal & the Printing Machine. London. 1-2 (no. 1-91),
1834-1835.
- Reel 30: Liberal. London. 1-2 (no. 1-4), 1822-1823.
- Reel 30: Literary Lounger. London. Jan. - Sept. 1826.
- Reel 30: Monthly Amusement. London. no. 1-6, Apr. - Sept. 1709.
- Reels 30-31: Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore & Legend. Newcastle- on-Tyne. 1-5,
1887-1891.
- Reel 31: Monthly Museum. Dublin 1-2, Oct. 1813 - Dec. 1814.
- Reel 31: Reflector. (Leigh Hunt) London. 1-2, 1810-1811.
- Reel 31: Weekly Memorials for the Ingenious. (Faithorne) London. no. 1-50, Jan. 1681/82 - Jan.
15, 1683.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is a guide published by University Microfilms
located in the Rare Book Room reference collection (016.82UN3B).
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14- Daly's Theater Scrapbooks
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CALL NO.: FILM792D153 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: New York Public Library
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PUBDATE: 1961
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FORMAT: Microfilm -- 8 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Contains mounted clippings, playbills, etc. dealing with Augustin
Daly and his company, which was featuredat Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre. There is also a great deal
of information on actors and playwrights of the period.
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CONTENTS:
- Reel 1: v.1. 1863-74 v.2. 1865-96 v.3. 1870-77 v.4. 1872-75 v.5. 1873-74 v.5a. 1874-75 v.6.
1875-76 v.7. 1876-77.
- Reel 2: v.8. 1879-80 v.9. 1880-81 v.10. 1881-82 v.11. 1882-83 v.12. 1883 v.13- 14. 1883-84
v.15. 1884-85.
- Reel 3: v.16. 1885-86 v.17. 1886 v.18. 1886-87 v.19. 1887-88 v.20. 1888.
- Reel 4: v.21. 1888-89 v.22. 1889 v.23. 1889-90 v.24. 1890.
- Reel 5: v.25. 1890-91 v.26. 1891 v.27-28. 1891-92 v.29. 1892-93.
- Reel 6: v.30 1892-93 v.31-32. 1893 v.33-34. 1893-94 v.35. 1894-95.
- Reel 7: v.36. 1894-95 v.37. 1895-96 v.38-39. 1896-97.
- Reel 8: v.40. 1897 v.41. 1897-98 v.42. 1898 v.43. 1899.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is a book on the theatre held by UIUC called
Daly's: The Biography of a Theatre. The call numberis 792.F74d (STX), the author is D.
Forbes-Winslow, and it was published in London by W.H. Allen in 1944.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: 1. Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899. 2. Daly's Theatre, New York. 3.
Daly's Theatre, London. 4. Theater--NewYork (City)--History.
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15- Design by Motley: Set and Costume Designs 1932-1976 in The University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CALL NO.: MFICHE792.026D46 (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: Emmett
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PUBDATE: 1992
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FORMAT: Microfiche -- 58 color microfiche
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: From 1932 to 1976, "Design by Motley" meant the very best in dramatic
costume and set design. MargaretHarris, Sophie Harris, Elizabeth Montgomery set a Broadway and West
End standard, designing sets and costumes for over150 Shakespearean dramas, new plays, modern
classics, musicals, ballets, operas, and films. The designs are reproducedfrom material held by the
Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which purchased over 5,000 items fromthe
Motley design team in 1981. 'Design by Motley' contains over 4,700 set and costume designs, from
sketches to fullpaintings, produced for both theatre and film, on color microfiche.
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ARRANGEMENT: The plays are ordered chronologically, each production given a
six-digit code based upon its first knownperformance date. An example of this is 450716, meaning
the play was first performed on July 16th 1945. Within eachproduction costumes are shown before
sets. Within the costumes, costumes for women are before men's, lead beforesecondary roles,
followed by rough designs, details, and miscellaneous sketches. Sets are arranged by act/scene with
studies,details, and miscellany at the end.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is a guide to accompany this collection called
Design by Motley: set and costume designs,1932-1976 in the University of Illinois: microfiche guide
and catalogue (792.026D46). This alphabetical index of theplays is accompanied by a short index of
fiche/page number. The guide is housed with the collection in the Rare Book Room. Michael Mullin
has also written a book about Motley called Design by Motley. Its call number is 792.026M917D and
it isalso housed RBX and EGX.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: 1. Harris, Margaret, 1904- 2. Montgomery, Elizabeth, 1902- 3.
Devine, Sophie, -1901- 4. Motley, pseud. 5. Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery 6. Costume-1902- I.
Devine, Sophie, 1901- II. Montgomery, Elizabeth, 1902- -1903- III. Harris, Margaret,1904- IV.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library.
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16- Dictionary of Old English
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CALL NO.: MFICHE429.3D561 (EGR)
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PUBLISHER: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies for the Centre for Medieval
Studies, Univ. of Toronto
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PUBDATE: 1986-present
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FORMAT: Microfiche
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LANGUAGE: English and Old English
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DESCRIPTION: A dictionary of Old English words is derived from the Old English
corpus and serves as a bilingualtranslation dictionary. Place names and personal names are
excluded
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: The Old English List of Texts and Index of Editions,
revised March 1995, is also available at the Englishlibrary next to the microfiche reader. Included
with this list is the "Cameron Number to Short Title Index for the Old EnglishCorpus".
- Derived from the Old English Concordance (Entry 29).
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: English language--Old English. Ca.450-1100--Dictionaries;
Anglais (Langue)--ca. 450-1100 (Vieilanglais)--Dictionnaires
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17- The Early and Central Middle Ages, c. 650-c.1200
The Manuscript Record
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CALL NO: FILM080.942C144E (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester
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SERIES: Britain's Literary Heritage
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PUBDATE: 1986
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NOTE: Reproduction quality varies from poor to good. Many shadows, blurry patches,
and other problems.
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FORMAT:
- Microfilm: Parts One and Two--Cambridge University Library: 25 reels
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LANGUAGES: Anglo-Saxon and Latin
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DESCRIPTION: Parts one and two contain Anglo-Saxon and Latin manuscripts from
Cambridge University Library;manuscripts from other libraries are to be included in future parts.
The manuscripts document the earliest years of medievalbook production in the British Isles. There
are a variety of texts--many theological works, histories, and the like. Includedamong the
Anglo-Saxon works are literary manuscripts by Aelfric, Aldhelm, Bede, Boethius, Gregorius, and
Wulfstan.Included are Bestiaries, Saints Lives, Charters, and Gospels.
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ARRANGEMENT: In class order for the "Two-letter" manuscripts, followed by the
Additional manuscripts in numerical order.
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CONTENTS:
- Part 1:
- Dd.I.4; I.7; I.8; I.28; I.29; I.32; VI.6; VI.12; VII.16; VIII.6; VIII.13-15; IX.4; IX.6;
XIII.4
- Ee.II.3; II.4; V.32; VI.37
- Ff.I.23; I.27; II.12; II.33; III.5; III.9; III.29; IV.32; IV.40-43; V.27
- Gg.I.10; I.21; II.21; III.28; IV.15; IV.33; V.35
- Part 2:
- Hh.I.2; I.10
- Ii.I.14; I.33; I.35; I.41; II.1; II.3; II.4; II.11; II.19; II.23; III.6; III.12; III.20; III.
23; III.28; III.32; III.33; IV.4; IV.6. IV.13; IV.19; IV.26; IV.31; IV.34; IV.36; VI.20; VI.32
- Kk.I.17; I.23; I.24; III.18; III.21; III.24; III.28; IV.6; IV.13; IV.15; IV.21; IV.22; V.16;
V.32; V.34; VI.15
- Ll.I.10; I.14; II.10
- Mm.IV.19; IV.25; IV.28; V.16; V.17; V.29; V.30; V.32; V.33
- Add. 3108; 3206; 3330; 4079; 4219; 4543; 5368; 6865; 7220; 7458
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Guide that accompanies the collection for Parts One
and Two gives an itemized list of contents of each reel,and has an author index and a manuscript
date index. Brief descriptions are provided for each manuscript, a newly attributeddate, and Ker
and Gneuss (see below) references where relevant. Full descriptive entries of the manuscripts
selected from the"Two-letter" series are provided at the beginning of the first reel of Part One.
These are taken from Cambridge UniversityLibrary's published catalog (see below). The applicable
descriptions are also reproduced at the beginning of each reel.
- FILMX016.091C141856 A Catalog of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of
Cambridge. Cambridge, Eng. : 1856. (RBX) NOTE: this is out of date.
- 016.829 K45C Ker, Neil. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford, 1957;
reprinted 1990. (UGR, EGR)
- 829.09 AN4 Gneuss, H. "A Preliminary List of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England Up To
1100." in Anglo-Saxon England 9 (1981), pp. 1-60. (EGX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts, British--650-1100; Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon;
Manuscripts, Latin; Cambridge UniversityLibrary (Cambridge, Eng.)
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18- Early British Periodicals
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CALL NO: Uncataloged (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: University Microfilms International
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PUBDATE: 1971-1982
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 877 reels in 30 units (each unit is approximately 100,000
pages)
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REVIEWS: Microform Review 3/2 (April, 1974), pp. 114-116.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION:
- This collection reproduces complete runs of 168 journals, magazines, and reviews published
between 1681 and 1921 in Great Britain. Many of them are literary and contain literature and
criticism, but many others are devoted to the topics of the day--such as religion, economics,
psychology, society, and popular science. 31 periodicals predate 1800. There are both well-known
and obscure journals.
- Some titles are: Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1907), Tatler, Spectator and others from the 18th
century; Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend and The Freedman, as well as Methodist
Magazine (1778-1900) and Quarterly Review (1802-1910) from the 19th century.
- This collection supplements the English Literary Periodicals microfiche collection (see
description in this guide).
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ARRANGEMENT: The periodicals have been filmed in continuous runs, but the
periodicals have not necessarily been put in chronological order (i.e. periodical 1 might cover
1750-1800 whereas periodical 2 might cover 1700-1770).
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- There are guides to each unit (i.e. the component parts of the collection) that contain a
reel-by-reel listing of contents, and indexes. Each reel has a checklist of contents at the start
of the reel. And each item has a bibliographical description preceding it on the film.
- [not in LCS] Fader, Daniel, and George Bornstein. British Periodicals of the 18th and 19th
Centuries. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1972. The first 35 periodicals for the collection are
described.
- 820.9F12P Fader, Daniel. The Periodical Context of English Literature 1708-1907. Ann Arbor:
University Microfilms, 1971. (STX)
- The following work is a guide and index to the complete collection:
- 011.34G941 Hoornstra, Jean, and Grace Puravs. A Guide to the Early British Periodicals
Collection on Microfilm, with Title, Subject, Editor, and Reel Number Indexes. Ann Arbor:
University Microfilms International, 1980. (REX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Periodicals, British
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19- Early English Books: 1475-1640
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CALL NO.: Uncataloged (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: University Microfilms
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PUB. DATE: 1938-present
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FORMAT: Microfilm (64 units, 2034 reels)
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: A collection of books and other materials selected from Pollard and
Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue ofBooks Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of English
Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640.
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ARRANGEMENT: Filmed as located, not in Pollard & Redgrave order.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- There are multiple volumes of indexes for the series. Each new unit has its own index. In 1985
there was an index of allowing for location of items by means of a STC (Short-Title Catalogue)
number to Reel number listing. This guide covers reels 1-1885. Once this guide has been consulted,
users are urged to next check the individual reel guide itself for details on the edition
microformed, its condition, &c. Easy explanations of how the indexes work are at the beginning
of each volume. (015.42UN3P) (RBX, STX)
- The 2-volume Pollard & Redgrave Short-Title Catalogue is held in three libraries.
(Q.015.42P76S1976) (RBX, EGX, REX)
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20- English Literary Periodicals
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CALL NO: FILM052BRP (STX)
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PUBLISHER: University Microfilms International
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PUBDATE: 1951-1976
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 902 reels
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REVIEW: Library Journal 76/2 (Jan. 15, 1951), pp. 125-28 (Describes plan of the
collection).
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS:
- This is a collection of several hundred British periodicals, starting with Heraclitus Ridens
(1681), the firstsuch periodical, and continuing through about 1910. The eighteenth century is
represented with the Tatler, Spectator,Gentleman's Magazine, the Plain Dealer, and others. They
include comic publications and more serious essay journals andabstracts of learned books. Also
included are journals containing such cultural information as moral commentary,
Parliamentarydebates, literary criticism, advice to lovers, poetry, obituaries, and lists of
recently published books. The literary review isrepresented in Memoirs of Literature (1710-14) and
Monthly Review (1749-1844).
- After 1800, when periodical publishing greatly increased, the selection becomes more literary.
Typical periodicals included areMonthly Repository (1806-38), Cambridge University Magazine
(1839-43), and Englishman's Magazine, all literaryjournals with essays and belles-lettres.
Theatrical reviews are represented in Theatrical Journal (1839-71), and poetry inPoetical Register
(1801-11).
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ARRANGEMENT: In the order the periodicals were filmed. Thus access through the
index listed below (e.g. AccessingEnglish Periodicals) is necessary.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
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- 016.052UN3E English Literary Periodicals: Bibliography. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1973.
(REX)
- 016.8205UN3A Accessing English Literary Periodicals: A Guide to the Collection with Title,
Subject, Editor & ReelNumber Indexes. Edited by Grace Puravs, Kathy Kavanagh, and Vicki Smith.
Ann Arbor, MI: University MicrofilmsInternational, 1981. (REX)
- 016.809W21LIT Ward, William S. Literary Reviews in British Periodicals 1789-1797: A
Bibliography. New York:Garland, 1977. (EGR)
- 016.052W299 The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900: Phase I. Waterloo, Ont.:
Wilfred LaurierPress for the Univ. of Waterloo, 1976. (EGR)
- 052H81W The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton.
Toronto: Univ. ofToronto Press, 1966- (EGR)
- 016.052W58E White, Robert B. The English Literary Journal to 1900: A Guide to Information
Sources. Vol. 8. Detroit:Gale Research, 1977. (EGR)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Periodicals, British--1700-1900; literary
criticism----1700-1900; poetry--English;
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21- Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narratives
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CALL NO: MFICHE326.973F31S (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Andronicus Publishing Co. (Produced by Arcata Microfilm)
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PUBDATE: 1977
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FORMAT: Microfiche: 169 fiche
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REVIEW: None for this particular product, but the materials themselves have been
filmed before, at which time a review ofthem was published: Microform Review 2/1 (January 1973),
pp. 57-58.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS:
- This is a collection of interviews of ex-slaves commissioned and gathered by the Federal
Writers Projectin 1937 and 1938. There are over 2,000 interviews, mostly of 2 or 3 pages in length.
They are typescripts, with somephotographs of the interviewees.
- The first 18 frames of the first microfiche contain an introduction to the collection prepared
when the collection was depositedwith the Library of Congress in 1951.
- Most of the interviewers were untrained in interviewing techniques; most were not Black. The
project directors gave a list ofquestions (reproduced on the first microfiche) to each interviewer
and instructed them to record the conversations with theformer slaves as nearly as possible in the
dialect and words of the interviewees. Few of the narratives are literal transcripts,however; most
read like short essays with quoted comments. Also included are interviews with white informants
regardingslavery, transcripts of laws, advertisements, records of sale, transfer, and manumission
of slaves, and other documents.
- The materials are preserved in the Library of Congress. Most of the typescripts are very clear
and easy to read, but thephotographs are not clear.
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ARRANGEMENT: By state and then alphabetically by surname of interviewee (i.e.
ex-slave): Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: None. Needs a name and subject index.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: African-Americans--Slave narratives; Slave narratives--United
States; Federal Writers' Project; FederalWorks Administration; Library of Congress--Archives
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22- First Line Index of Manuscript Poetry in the Huntington Library
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CALL NO.: MFICHE016.821F519 (EGR)
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PUBLISHER: A. Matthew
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PUBDATE: 1992
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FORMAT: Microfiche -- 1287p. on 15 microfiches
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Index of first lines of major, minor, and anonymous poets held in the
Huntington Library's 100,000manuscripts of 1,000 different writers, including the large collection
of poetic commonplace books. The index contains poemsprincipally from 1500-1850 and each card
provides: First line, Title, Author, Mss ref, Date, References, and Notes.
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ARRANGEMENT: Index card file with approximately 2,500 entries.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is an accompanying guide.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; English
poetry--18th century--Indexes; American poetry--Indexes; English poetry--Early modern.
1500-1700--Indexes; Openings (Rhetoric)--Indexes
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23- History of the Philadelphia Stage between the Years 1749-1855
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CALL NO.: FILM792D93H (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Library of the University of Pennsylvania
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PUBDATE: 1950
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FORMAT: Microfilm -- 7 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: By Charles Durang. Arranged and illustrated by Thompson Westcott in
1868. Handwritten index ofillustrations at beginning of each volume.
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CONTENTS: Volumes 1-6 consist of a series of articles entitled "The Philadelphia
Stage," which were clipped from thePhiladelphia Sunday Dispatch. Newspaper clippings, showbills,
and letters supplement the text in vols. 1-6 and make up theentirety of volume 7.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Theater--Philadelphia--History.
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24- Manuscripts of the Irish Literary Renaissance
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CALL NO.:
- Ser.1: FILM792.092H728H (STX)
- Ser.2: FILM792.0941835H383W (STX)
- Ser.3: FILM822.SY7YSY (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester
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PUBDATE: 1985
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FORMAT: Microfilm
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- Ser.1: 105 reels
- Ser.2: 5 reels
- Ser.3: 19 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Sources from the Irish Literary Renaissance, which encompassed the
careers of Lady Gregory, EdwardMartyn, Sean O'Casey, John Millington Synge, and William Butler
Yeats.
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- Ser.1 Includes consists of the diaries of Joseph Holloway "who must be regarded as one of the
most theatre-goers of all time."From 1895-1944 he witnessed nearly every major performance in
Dublin and also annual trips to London. The journals alsoinclude records of musical events, poetry
readings, and public lectures of the day. His experiences are recounted by his ownwords and
newspaper clippings.
- Ser.2 Includes W.A. Henderson's collection of newspaper clippings, playbills, newsletters,
photographs, and letters "from thedays of the Irish National Theatre Movement up to the opening of
the Abbey Theatre and on the controversy of the firstperformances of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of
the Western World."
- Ser.3 Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of all of Synge's published and unpublished
works, and unpublished biographyof Synge by his nephew Edward Stephens, Synge family documents, and
programs, receipts, and photographs dating from1890.
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CONTENTS:
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- Series 1: pt.1 1888-1911 (reels 1-17) -pt.2 1912-1917 (reels 18-38)--pt.3 1918- 1924 (reels
39-65)--pt.41925-1929 (reels 66-105)
- Series 2: Reel one: 1899-1901, 1904-1907 Reel two: 1908-1909 Reel three: 1910-1911 Reel four:
c.1899-c.1923(miscellany of items) Reel five: c.1909-c.1910 (miscellany) and undated cuttings and
photographs.
- Series 3: pt.1 Manuscript and typescript plays, notebooks, diaries &c. (reels 1- 11)--pt.2
The Stephens/Synge collection (reels 12-19)
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is a list of contents on each reel and guides
for series one and three.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS:
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- Ser.1: Holloway, Joseph--Archives; Abbey Theatre--History--Sources;Dublin Gate
Theatre--History--Sources; Theater--Ireland--Dublin--History Sources.
- Ser.2: Abbey Theatre--History--Sources; Theater--Ireland--Dublin--History-- Sources.
- Ser.3: Synge, J.M. (John Millington), 1871-1909--Archives; Abbey Theatre-- History--Sources;
Trinity College(Dublin,Ireland)--Library--Archives;
Theater--Ireland--Dublin--History--Sources.
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25- Medieval Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Cotton Collection; British
Library, London.
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CALL NO.: FILM941.01M468 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester Microfilm
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PUBDATE: 1986-
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FORMAT: Microfilm
- Part 1: reels 1-21
- Part 2: reels 22-35
- Part 3: reels 36-53
- Part 4: reels 58-71
- Part 5: reels 72-85
- Part 6: reels 86-101
- Part 7: reels 102-123
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NOTE: The leaves of many manuscripts are very uneven (buckled and stretched)
resulting in blurry images. See MichaelStoller's "Large Manuscript Collections in Microform: A
Dubious Library Investment," in Microform Review 18 (1989), pp.15-19 for more on this problem.
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REVIEWS: Microform Review 17/3 (Aug '88), p. 168-9
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LANGUAGES: English and Latin
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DESCRIPTION: This microfilm collection contains about 300 of the manuscripts in
the collection of Sir Robert Cotton,gathered in the seventeenth century and deposited with the
British Museum in the eighteenth. They were selected by Prof. PaulHarvey of the University of
Durham. Included are those which are primary sources for British history and English literaturedown
to the end of the 15th century. Excluded are texts written in Anglo-Saxon and cartularies, both of
which are covered byother microfilm collections. Also excluded in some cases are volumes containing
medical recipes, works of natural philosophy,genealogy and heraldry, law reports and theological
tracts or sermons, if Prof. Harvey felt that they were not useful forhistorical or literary
research.
- Typical works are the Pearl manuscript--Cotton Nero A.x, which contains Gawain and the Green
Knight, Pearl, and Patience;Julius E.iv--Lydgate's poetry; prophecies of Merlin (Tiberius A.ix),
and French and Middle English verse (Julius A.v).
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ARRANGEMENT: In the order of the catalog cited below. The catalog follows the
order of the Cotton collection, in whichmanuscripts were grouped first by Roman emperor (beginning
with Julius and following their chronological order), then byletter (beginning with A), and finally
by lower case Roman numerals.
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CONTENTS:
- Part 1
- Julius A.i; A.iii; A.iv; A.v; A.vii; A.viii; A.ix; A.xi; B.i; B.ii; B.iii; B.vi; B.xii; B.xiii;
C.ii; C.vii; D.iv; D.v; D.vi; D.vii; D.ix; D.x; D.xi; E.i; E.iv; E.vi; E.viii; F.ii; F.x.
- Augustus iv; v.
- Tiberius A.iv; A.v; A.vi; A.vii; A.viii; A.ix; A.x; A.xiv; A.xv; B.ii; B.iv; B.vi; B.ix; B.xii;
B.xiii; C.ix; C.vii; C.viii; C.ix; C.x; C.xiii; D.v; D.vii; E.i; E.iii; E.iv; E.vi; E.viii.
- Part 2
- Caligula A.ii; A.iii; A.vi; A.viii; A.ix; A.x; A.xi; A.xviii; D.iii; D.iv; D.v.
- Claudius A.i; A.ii; A.iv; A.v; A.viii; A.xi; A.xiv; B.ii; B.vii; B.ix; C.ii; C.v; C.vi; C.ix;
D.i; D.ii; D.iv; D.vi; D.vii; D.viii; E.i; E.ii; E.iii; E.iv; E.viii.
- Part 3
- Nero A.iii; A.iv; A.v; A.vi; A.vii; A.viii; A.ix; A.x; A.xi; A.xiv; A.xv; A.xvi; A.xvii; C.i;
C.iii; C.v; C.vi; C.vii; C.viii;C.ix; C.xi; D.i; D.ii; D.v; D.vi; D.vii; D.viii; D.ix; D.x; D.xi;
E.i.
- Galba A.vii; A.xi; B.i; E.iii; E.iv; E.vii; E.viii; E.ix; E.x; E.xi; E.xii.
- Otho A.i; A.ii; A.iii; A.iv; A.v; A.vi; A.vii; A.viii; A.ix; A.x; A.xi; A.xii; A.xiii; A.xviii;
B.iii; B.iv; B.v; B.xi; B.xiii; C.xii; C.xiii; C.xiv; C.xv; C.xvi; D.i; D.iv; D.vii; D.x;
D.xi.
- Part 4
- Vitellius A.ii; A.viii; A.x; A.xvi; A.xvii; A.xx; C.ii; C.iv; C.viii; C.x; C.xii; C.xiii;
C.xiv; D.ii; D.v; D.xi; D.xii; D.xv; D.xx; E.i; E.iv; E.v; E.vii; E.x; E.xi; E.xii; E.xiii; E.xiv;
E.xvi; E.xvii; F.i; F.iii; F.iv; F.vi; F.viii; F.ix; F.xii; F.xvi; F.xvii.
- Part 5
- Vespasian A.ii; A.iii; A.v; A.vi; A.vii; A.viii; A.ix; A.xii; A.xiv; A.xvi; A.xviii; A.xix;
A.xxii; A.xxiii; A.xxiv; B.iv; B.vii; B.ix; B.xi; B.xii; B.xiv; B.xv; B.xvi; B.xix; B.xx; B.xxi;
B.xxii; B.xxv; C.xvi; D.i; D.iv; D.vii; D.viii; D.ix; D.x; D.xiii; D.xvi; D.xix; D.xxi; D.xxii;
D.xxvii; E.iii; E.iv; E.vi; E.vii; E.ix; E.x; E.xi; E.xii; E.xvi; E.xxi; E.xxii; F.vii.
- Part 6
- Titus A.i; A.ii; A.iii; A.viii; A.ix; A.xiii; A.xiv; A.xviii; A.xix; A.xx; A.xxi; A.xxiii;
A.xxiv; A.xxv; A.xxvi; A.xxvii; C.xvii; D.i; D.ii; D.iv; D.v; D.vii; D.viii; D.ix; D.x; D.xi;
D.xii; D.xiii; D.xv; D.xix; D.xx; D.xxii; D.xxiii; D.xxiv; E.i; E.ii; E.iii; E.iv; E.v; E.vi;
E.vii; E.viii; E.ix.
- Part 7
- Domitian .i; ii; iv; v; viii; ix; xi; xii; xiii; xv; xviii.
- Cleopatra A.i; A.ii; A.vi; A.vii; A.xii; A.xiv; A.xvi; B.i; B.iii; B.iv; B.v; B.xiii; C.iv;
C.vii; C.ix; C.x; C.xi; D.ii; D.iii; D.iv; D.v; D.vii; D.viii; D.ix; E.i; E.ii; E.iii; F.iii; F.iv;
F.v.
- Faustina A.ii; A.v; A.vi; A.vii; A.viii; B.i; B.iii; B.iv; B.v; B.vi; B.vii; B.viii; B.ix;
C.iv; C.v; C.vi; C.ix.
- Appendix iv; vii; viii; xv.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: The following printed catalog describes the
collection.
- X016.091OX2BS A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British
Museum. London, British Museum, 1802. Version emended and annotated by the British Library is
reproduced in reel 1. (RBX), (STX) for printed, unannotated copies.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts, British--650-1650; British Library (London);
Cotton Collection (British Library)
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26- Mullin Collection of Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon
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CALL NO.: Uncataloged (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: non-commercial
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PUBDATE: 1976
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 93 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS: The Mullin collection is a microfilm reproduction of the
archives of the Shakespeare Memorial/RoyalShakespeare Theatre in the Shakespeare Centre Library,
Stratford-on-Avon, England. It covers the productions the mountedduring 1879-1978. All materials
related to a production are included, such as promptbooks, reviews, and the like.
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ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by play title, then chronological by production.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: The collection is described and indexed in:
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- Q.792.0942489M917T1980 Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: a catalog-index to productions of the
Shakespeare Memorial/Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1879-1978. Compiled by Michael Mullin and others.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1981.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.);
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.); Shakespeare Centre Library
(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.)--Archives; Shakespeare--Productions--England; Mullin, Michael.
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27- New York Theater: Vandamm Collection: Theater Photographs from 1915 to
1960
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CALL NO.: MFICHE792.09747 N42 (UGR)
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PUBLISHER: Chadwyck-Healy
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PUBDATE: 1981
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FORMAT: Microfiche: 877 microfiche
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NOTE: Reproduction quality: Good.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS:
- The collection reproduces the Vandamm Collection of the New York Public Library. It contains
26,000captioned photographs of stage productions and a "Personality File" of photographs of 1,000
individual performers. Almostevery photograph is captioned, providing information about the scene
and the performers.
- The collection was gathered by Florence Vandamm, who established a portrait photography studio
with her husband GeorgeR. Thomas on 50th Street in New York City around 1920. They also took
"on-stage" photographs. She retired in 1961. It is anearly comprehensive record of the many New
York productions and performers in that time span.
- Also included in the Vandamm collection are the theater photographs of Francis J. Bruguiere. He
had a studio in New Yorkbetween 1919 and 1927 and took photographs of performers and stage
sets.
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ARRANGEMENT: Photographs of productions are grouped alphabetically by name of
production. Photographs in the"Personality File" are arranged alphabetically by name of
subject.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: A handlist of productions and individuals in the
"Personality File" is included with the collection:
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- 792.09747N42 VanDamm, Florence. New York Theater: 1919-1961: A Handlist of Stage Productions in
the VanDamm Collection. Cambridge, Eng.: Chadwyck-Healy, 1981. (UGX)
- The card catalog to the collection is included on microfiche in two parts:
- First part lists productions by title in alphabetical order. Information given includes
playwright, date and, where relevant,translator or adaptor. Different runs of a production are
identified.
- Second part lists playwrights, producers, directors, composers, lyricists, choreographers, set
designers, and costumers, withreference to the applicable productions.
- For the work of Francis Brugiere, included in the collection, see:
- Enyeart, James. Bruguiere: His Photographs and His Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. [not in UIUC
library]
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Vandamm, Florence, 1881-1966; Theater--New York City;
Bruguiere, Francis J.;Photographs--dramatic--New York City--1919-1961.
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28- 19th Century American Literature and History
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CALL NO: Broad classification (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Lost Cause Press
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PUBDATE: 1955-
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FORMAT: Microfiche
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS:
- The collection as a whole reproduces nearly 4,000 volumes of nineteenth century American
literature and history. The emphasis is on literary works. However, related materials of
significance for the history of American culture in the nineteenth century are also included. There
are some works from the late eighteenth century, as well as some from the early twentieth
century.
- The UIUC library has a selection of works from this collection. Each title held by UIUC is
cataloged and in the online catalogand given a class number. The microcards containing the works
are alphabetically filed in the Microcard filing cabinets in theMicroform Room--Stack 7.
- The collection was selected by Dr. Lawrence S. Thompson, University of Kentucky.
- There are three series:
- Series A: The Ohio Valley
- Series B: The South
- Series C: The Trans-Mississippi West, also known as "A Library of Western Americana."
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ARRANGEMENT: Microfiche are arranged alphabetically by main entry, generally
author. Initial microfiche for each titleincludes bibliographical data--usually a catalog
card.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- Series A and B (The Ohio Valley and the South) are listed in (not classified):
- [not in LCS] 19th Century American Literature and History: Lost Cause Press Microfiche
Collection. Louisville, KY: Lost Cause, 1974.
- Series C (The Trans-Mississippi West) is listed in:
- [not in LCS] A Library of Western Americana. Louisville, KY: Lost Cause, [no date].
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Literature, American--1800-1900.
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29- Old English Concordance
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CALL NO.: MFICHE829.03V55M (EGR)
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PUBLISHER: University of Delaware
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PUBDATE: 1980
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FORMAT: Microfiche -- 412 microfiche
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LANGUAGE: English and Old English
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DESCRIPTION: Approximately 3,000,000 words, compiled from the 2,000 surviving Old
English texts are concorded herein the alphabetical collating sequence established by the
Dictionary of Old English. Words are listed alphabetically by sourcewith the word's particular use
illustrated with a long passage for each entry.
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ARRANGEMENT: Words in the concordance are unlemmatized, that is the variant
spellings of a certain word are not listed under one heading, but strictly alphabetically. For
instance, the word "lac" is also listed under its variants, "laec," "laac," and inflections like
"laces," "lace," "laca," and "lacum." Homographs are not organized by meaning, but alphabetically
by source as are the other entries. "Ge" words are not with their "unprefixed counterparts," but
rather listed alphabetically under the letter "G."
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- The first few fiche in the collection offer guidance including an introduction and history of
the concordance, notes on the preparation of the texts involved, and a list of the 2,000 surviving
Old English texts which formed the basis for the concordance.
- The Old English List of Texts and Index of Editions, revised March 1995, is also available at
the English library next to themicrofiche reader. Included with this list is the "Cameron Number to
Short Title Index for the Old English Corpus."
- The Dictionary of Old English (Entry 16) was derived from this work.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: English literature--Old English.
Ca.450-1100--Concordances
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30- Prompt Books and Actors' Copies [of the Theatre Museum at the Victoria and
Albert Museum]
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CALL NO.: MFICHE792.95P94 (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: Ormonde
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PUBDATE: 1983
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FORMAT: Microfiche: 486 microfiche
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: The collection includes promptbooks, actors' copies, and associated
playbills and photographs (where theyare included with the prompt books) in the collection of the
Theatre Museum of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Itincludes both Shakespearean and
non-Shakespearean performances at the Old Vic (from 1937-1963), and by Mrs. PatrickCampbell
(1865-1940), by William Poel (1852-1934), and James Henry Hackett (1800-1871).
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ARRANGEMENT: First, prompt books are grouped by collection (e.g. Hackett). Within
each collection, promptbooks forShakespearean plays are listed first, followed by promptbooks for
non-Shakespearean plays. Finally, within that division, theyare arranged alphabetically by title of
the play.
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CONTENTS:
- Four collections:
- William Poel (199 fiche)
- James Henry Hackett (102 fiche)
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell (34 fiche)
- Old Vic Theatre (151 fiche)
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- A guide to the collection is included with the fiche:
- MFICHE 792.95 P94INDEX
Prompt Books and Actors' Copies of the Theatre Museum Index at the V&A. London :
Ormonde, c 1983. (RBR)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Prompt books; Old Vic Theatre (London); Poel, William;
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick; Hackett, James Henry;Theatre Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum,
London)
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31- Prompt Books of Shakespeare's Plays
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CALL NO: FILM792.0942489SH15P1 (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: Caledonian Scanneg
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PUBDATE: 1964-1974
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 7 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Microfilms of promptbooks used for productions at the Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.) and selected earlier performances.
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NOTE: See also the Shattuck Collection (Entry 38) and Shakespeare at
Stratford-upon-Avon Collection (Entry 36).
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CONTENTS:
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- Reel 4: King Lear
- Reel 5: Macbeth; Julius Caesar
- Reel 11: Phelps prompt books
- Reel 14: As You Like It
- Reel 15: The Tempest
- Reel 21: Anthony and Cleopatra
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- Q.792.0942489 M917T1980
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: a catalog-index to productions of the Shakespeare
Memorial/Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1879- 1978. Compiled by MichaelMullin and others.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1981. (RBX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Prompt books; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.)
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32- Prompt Books of Shakespeare's Plays as Performed in
Stratford-upon-Avon
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CALL NO.: FILM792.0942489SH15P (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: Scanneg
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PUBDATE: 1975-
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 58 reels, numbered 537A to 684 with gaps in numbering but the
contents are complete.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Microfilms of promptbooks used for productions at the Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.) and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
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NOTE: See also the Shattuck Collection (Entry 38) and Shakespeare at
Stratford-upon-Avon Collection (Entry 36), bothdescribed in this guide.
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CONTENTS: Prompt books are arranged in chronological order from the foundation of
the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in1879 to 1960's. Prompt books, playbills, and other materials
related to each production, are arranged by production withineach year.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: The productions of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre are listed in:
- Q.792.0942489 M917T1980
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: a catalog-index to productions of the Shakespeare
Memorial/RoyalShakespeare Theatre, 1879-1978. Compiled by Michael Mullin and others. Urbana:
Univ. of Illinois Press, 1981. (RBX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Prompt books; Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon,
Eng.); Shakespeare Memorial Theatre(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.)
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33- Royal Shakespeare Theatre: Shakespearean Promptbooks 1976-1985
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CALL NO.: FILM 822.33 CR812 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: Emmett Publishing
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PUBDATE: 1990
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FORMAT: Microfiche -- 195 fiche
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS:
- The collection reproduces the promptbooks used by the Deputy Stage Manager for all productions
of theRoyal Shakespeare Company between the years 1976 to 1985. They are housed in the library of
the Shakespeare Centre inStratford-upon-Avon. Each promptbook is reproduced in full. The majority
of the Shakespeare productions mounted by theRSC began in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre there, from
which they were transferred to London--the Aldwych until 1982, atwhich date it became the Barbican
Theatre. Some special productions for the studio theater (The Other Place) or for tours,were also
included. The promptbooks contain the cut up text of the play as performed in the production, with
marked cuesand moves for the actors and notes on the position of stage props. The promptbooks, also
include lighting, music, andrecorded sound cues. If there was no promptbook in the library for a
particular production, the stage manager's or assistantstage manager's script was filmed in its
place. For productions that transferred from one site to another or went on tour, theremay be
included a second (third, etc) promptbook. However, in many cases the original promptbook was
adapted, and soonly that one would be filmed.
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NOTE: This collection supplements the Shattuck, and Mullin collections described
in this guide.
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ARRANGEMENT: Arranged chronologically, then by company (RST first, then Aldwych or
Barbican, then the smallertheaters and Newcastle, then tour), then alphabetically by play
title.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: A fiche-by-fiche description of the contents of the
collection is found in the guide that accompanies thecollection. (To be found in the Microform Room
under the above call number). It gives date of production, company, andplay. On the fiche, each
promptbook is preceded by the catalogue slip of the book. This gives brief details of the
productionand promptbook.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Promptbooks; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.); Shakespeare Centre Library(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.)--Archives.
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34- Royal Shakespeare Theatre: Theatre Records
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CALL NO.: FILM792.0942489SH152T (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: Scanneg
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PUBDATE: 1975-
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 37 reels. There are gaps in the numbering and the sequence is
irregular, but the sequence is complete.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: Microfilms of records kept in scrapbook form (including programs and
reviews) of the history of theShakespeare Memorial Theatre from 1879 to 1960, and of the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre from 1960-1979. Thescrapbooks are in the collection of the Shakespeare Centre
Library at Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
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NOTE: See also the Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon Collection, described in
this guide.
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CONTENTS: In chronological order from the foundation of the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre in 1879 to 1960's. Withineach year, arranged production. Use the Mullin catalog (described
below) to identify the date of the production.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: The productions of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre are listed in:
- Q.792.0942489 M917T1980
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: a catalog-index to productions of the Shakespeare
Memorial/Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1879- 1978. Compiled by MichaelMullin and others.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1981. (RBX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.);
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.); Shakespeare Centre Library
(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.)
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35- Shakespeare and the Stage
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CALL NO.: Uncataloged (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: Harvester Microform
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SERIES: Britain's Literary Heritage
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PUBDATE: c1986
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FORMAT: Microfilm; Series One (Folger) 84 reels; Series Three (Birmingham) 10
reels.
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REVIEW:
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- Microform Reviews, Vol. 15 (Summer 1986), pp. 175-177.
- Microform Reviews, Vol. 16 (Summer 1987), pp. 241-243.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION:
- This collection consists of three Series of which One and Three are in the U of I collection.
Series Onecontains promptbooks from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Promptbooks range from the
working texts of stage managers,company prompters, and players, to souvenir promptbooks from famous
productions. The earliest promptbooks date from the17th century; 19th and 20th century is
represented for both Britain and the U.S. The only items that have been omitted arepromptbooks
dated later than 1930 and materials based upon the prints and drawings collection of the
Folger.
- Some famous examples included in the collection are the 1773 text of David Garrick's revision
of Hamlet, records ofperformances by John Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Edmund Kean, and others.
- Series Three contains promptbooks and related materials from the collections of the Shakespeare
Library in Birmingham,England. The library was founded in 1864 to celebrate the 300th anniversary
of Shakespeare's birth. The collection contains abroad selection of Shakespeare productions from
1811 to the 1920's as recorded in the Stage managers' workingPromptbooks. Thus they illustrate
production styles of over a century. Also, there are the notebooks of Gordon Crosse, whichrecord
impressions of Shakespeare productions over a period of 63 years (1890-1953), including all of the
productions forthat period at the Old Vic and of the Stratford company.
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ARRANGEMENT: The material in Series One and Three is in Folger Shakespeare Library
order. In general, that means theyare first sorted alphabetically by the play name, then
chronologically under each play (e.g. first are early folios, thenpromptbooks arranged by their
unique Folger code, then more recent acquisitions).
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CONTENTS:
- Series One (Folger Shakespeare Library):
- Part 1: Detailed listing of promptbooks in series One; Folger Shakespeare Library Card Catalog;
promptbooks forShakespeare plays (in alphabetical order) from All's Well That Ends Well to Julius
Caesar (Reels 1-21)
- Part 2: Promptbooks for King Henry IV Part One to Macbeth (Reels 22-46)
- Part 3: Promptbooks for Measure for Measure to Pericles (Reels 47-64)
- Part 4: Promptbooks for Romeo and Juliet to The Winter's Tale and Miscellaneous Volumes (Reels
65-86).
- Series Three (Birmingham Shakespeare Library):
- Part 1: Detailed listing of promptbooks; promptbooks to the Shakespeare plays (1811-) in
alphabetical order; papers ofFrank Benson; and the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diary (1890-1953).
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- Harvester has provided guidebooks for each series which contain a reel-by-reel itemization of
the contents.A more detailed description of the items follows that.
- For series One, the card catalog of Promptbooks at the Folger Shakespeare Library is reproduced
in reel 1. This includes a detailed description of the physical condition, the type of promptbook,
its principal associations, provenance, date and place of performance, Folger Library manuscript
reference, and Shattuck reference.
- Two tools are also useful:
- X792.9SH15VS Shattuck, Charles H. The Shakespeare Promptbooks: a Descriptive Catalogue. Urbana,
IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1965. (RBX) (EGX)
- Shattuck, Charles H. "The Shakespeare Promptbooks: First Supplement." Theatre Notebook 24/1 (
Winter, 1969), pp. 5-17. Bound with above in (RBX) (STX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Prompt books; Cross, Gordon--diary; Benson, Frank;
Shakespeare Library (Birmingham, Eng.); FolgerShakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.)
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36- Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon
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CALL NO: MFICHE792.95SH15R (Part 1 EGR; Parts 2, 3, and 5 STX)
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PUBLISHER: Emmett Publishing (with G.K. Hall in North America)
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PUBDATE: 1989
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FORMAT:
- Microfiche:
- Part 1: 19 fiche (color)
- Part 2: 1079 fiche
- Part 3: 468 fiche
- Part 5: 311 fiche.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS: This collection contains the records in the Libraries of
the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and theShakespeare Birthplace Trust relating to productions at
Stratford-upon-Avon of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and theRoyal Shakespeare Company from 1875
to 1975. It is a representative selection, and not exhaustive. The following describesthe four
sections the U of I library owns:
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Part 1: Costume and Set Designs
- Artwork relating to productions was not preserved by RSC on a regular basis until the 1950s. In
addition, designers ownedtheir own artwork, so only those which they presented to the RSC library
are in the collection. Thus the costume and setdesigns are not complete. Artists represented
include Paul Shelving, George Sheringham, Leslie Hurry, and Malcolm Pride.These are working
drawings that show color, texture and atmosphere as well as shape or layout. For each
production,costume designs come first, followed by set designs. Note: the Motley Collection at UIUC
contains designs of RSCproductions.
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Part 2: Theatre Records (Press Cuttings)
- Reproduces the two series of scrapbook volumes devoted to the day to day activities of the
Shakespeare Memorial Theatreand the subsequent Royal Shakespeare Company, as reported by the press.
Reviews, news cuttings about actors, directors,designers, or other company members are all
included. The volumes are in chronological sequence. Series A contains allBritish newspaper
cuttings; Series B includes overseas tours and related materials. Interspersed are extracts of
reviews frommonthly journals, programs, season schedules, and other related material. (Note:
compare with Mullin Collection describedabove and Royal Shakespeare Theatre Theatre Records
collection, described in this guide).
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Part 3: Posters, Programs, Playbills, Photographs, and Pictures
- This collection begins with programs arranged by year, followed by playbills for productions
from the time of David Garrick(1756) on, arranged alphabetically. Then comes a collection of
pictures (from the Shakespeare Centre Library) covering allaspects of Shakespeare, especially
portraits of Shakespeare, artists' impressions of the Shakespeare plays, and the stagehistory of
the plays, all arranged by class mark. A second photograph collection, that of the RSC library,
records stageperformances. The posters (color fiche) start from the first performance in 1879 and
reach 1975.
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Part 5: Production Records
- These materials were first collected in 1947. Reproduced here is a selection of materials,
which varies in scope and size, thatwas preserved for each production from that date. The materials
include understudy charts, fly and hanging plots, propertylists, rehearsal notes, fight plans, and
running times.
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ARRANGEMENT: In general, each type of material is grouped together (e.g. programs,
photographs), then place inchronological order by date of the production. Photographs are arranged
by the class number explained at the beginning ofPart 3.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: Each part is described and has a fiche-by-fiche
inventory in the accompanying guide (found under the abovecall number).
- The guide to Part 1 (Set and Costume Design) also contains indexes to designers, actors, play
titles, producers, and directors.
- For Part 2 (Theatre Records/Scrapbooks), the reproduced scrapbooks contain tables of contents.
In addition, at the end of part 2 fiche is the full Plays Index to all productions from 1875 to
1975. This gives first night dates by which to find the correct Theatre Record.
- Part 3 (Posters, programs, etc) also relies on the Plays Index to identify the dates of first
nights by which to find the related materials. Photographs are given class numbers; a guide to the
class numbers precedes all the fiche for this part.
- Part 5 (Production Records) has no special bibliographic control.
- A helpful source is:
- Q.792.0942489 M917T1980
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: a catalog-index to productions of the Shakespeare
Memorial/Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1879-1978. Compiled by Michael Mullin and others.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1981. (RBX)
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.);
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.); Shakespeare Centre Library
(Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng.)--Archives; Shakespeare--Productions--England.
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37- Shakespeare in Context
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CALL NO: FILM 822.33FSH17 (STX)
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PUBLISHER: World Microfilms (London)
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PUBDATE: 1982
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 8 reels
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NOTE: Reproduction quality varies greatly. Some frames are blurred and cannot be
read easily.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS:
- This collection reproduces all contemporary testimonies--whether manuscript or printed--to
Shakespeareand his immediate family that are known to exist. There are churchbooks
(Stratford-upon-Avon, England), the College ofHeralds record of the Shakespeare coat of arms,
various indentures of purchase, and references to Shakespeare in earlyElizabethan printed works by
Greene and others.
- In addition it reproduces contemporary materials about the Elizabethan theatrical system, the
social and intellectual contexts,and the sources and texts of Shakespeare. For example there is
reproduced "The Hystorie of Hamlet" (1582)--a unique copyof a source that is in Trinity College,
Cambridge, Holinshed's Chronicles, and Raleigh's preface to his History of the World.Also
reproduced are examples of texts of Shakespeare as they appeared in the quartos during his
lifetime: Richard II, Hamlet,Pericles, and the poems Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and his
Sonnets.
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ARRANGEMENT: Chronological.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: There is a guide of 48 pp. and an index of 8 pages
that gives a reel-by-reel listing of contents (see under callnumber below).
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Shakespeare, William--biography; Shakespeare,
William--sources; Shakespeare, William--plays--editions.
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38- The Shattuck Collection of Shakespeare Promptbooks
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CALL NO: Uncataloged (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: non-commercial
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PUBDATE: c1965
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 260 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION:
- The Shattuck collection gathers in microform the promptbooks found in British and American
libraries ofproductions of Shakespeare plays. Shattuck defines "promptbook" as all the marked
copies of Shakespeare used inEnglish-language, professional theater productions from 1620 to 1961.
This includes all that are held in public collections andin the production departments of the late
Old Vic and the Festival Theatres at the three Stratfords. The promptbooks rangefrom those of
actual prompters, to souvenir promptbooks, to memorial books. Excluded are promptbooks in private
hands orthose of modern nonprofessional theaters.
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ARRANGEMENT: In Shattuck number order.
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CONTENTS: Collections with promptbook holdings contained in the microform
collection:
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- American Shakespeare Festival Theater, Stratford, CT
- Biblioteca Universitaria, Padova, Italy
- Bibliotheque de Douai, France
- Birmingham Shakespeare Library
- Boston (MA) Athenaeum
- Boston (MA) Public Library
- British Drama League, London
- British Museum, London
- British Theatre Museum, London
- Brown University Library, Providence, RI
- Connecticut State Library, Hartford
- Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Hanover, NH
- Edwin Forrest Home, Philadelphia, PA
- Enthoven Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Essex Institute, Salem, MA
- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
- Garrick Club, London
- Harvard Theater Collection, Cambridge, MA
- Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
- Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Cincinnati
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Tudor and Stuart Club, Baltimore, MD
- Joint University Libraries, Nashville, TN
- Library Company of Philadelphia, PA
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC: Manuscripts Div; Batchelder Collection
- Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
- London Museum, London
- Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection, London
- Missouri Historical Society Library, St. Louis
- Museum of the City of New York
- Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
- New York Public Library, Theater Collection
- Old Vic Theatre, London
- The Players, Walter Hampton Memorial Library, New York
- Princeton Univ. Library; William Seymour Theater Coll.
- Rutgers State Univ. Library, New Brunswick, NJ
- Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-on-Avon, England
- Ellen Terry Memorial Museum, Smallhythe, England
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Stratford, Ont.
- Toronto Public Library, Canada
- Univ. of Arizona Library, Tucson
- UCLA Library, Los Angeles, CA
- Univ. of Edinburgh Library, Scotland
- Univ. of Illinois Library, Urbana
- Univ. of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor
- Univ. of Minnesota Library, Minneapolis
- Univ. of Nebraska Libraries, Lincoln
- Univ. of North Carolina Library, Tannenbaum Shakespeare Collection, Chapel Hill
- Univ. of Pennsylvania Library: Horace H. Furness Collection; Rare Book Room; Philadelphia
- Univ. of Texas Library, Hoblitzelle Theater Arts Library, Austin
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Forster Library, London
- W.A. Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA
- Yale Univ.: Beinecke Rare Book Library; Elizabethan Club; New Haven, CT
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES: The collection is fully described in:
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- X792.9SH15VS Shattuck, Charles H.
The Shakespeare Promptbooks: Descriptive Catalog. Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press,
1965. (RBX) (EGX) -- Each promptbook is given a thorough description and a "Shattuck number."
- Shattuck, Charles H. "The Shakespeare Promptbooks: First Supplement." Theatre Notebook 24/1 (
Winter, 1969), pp. 5-17. (Bound with above in RBX and EGX copies); also: (STX) -- A reel
number-Shattuck number key is found in the RBX catalog entry for the collection.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Prompt books; Shakespeare, William--Works; Shattuck, Charles
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39- The Thomason Tracts: 1640-1661
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CALL NO: FILM942.06T368 (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: University Microfilms
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PUBDATE: 1977
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FORMAT: Microfilm: 256 reels
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION: According to the preface to the Index, this collection is "a unique
compilation of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and manuscripts collected contemporaneously by George
Thomason and now residing in the British Library." The collection consists of 23,926 tracts in
2,142 volumes.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES & INDEXES: There are two volumes of indexes (942.06T368�RBR).
The first is in Thomason Tract number order, giving the volume-page, date, Wing number, and reel
number for each tract. The second volume is a Wing number cross-reference, listing the tracts in
their Wing number order, and giving all the same information as the first volume. There is a highly
useful two-volume catalogue of the tracts, originally published in 1908 by the British Museum:
Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts Relating to the Civil War, the
Commonwealth, and Restoration, Collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661. This work was edited by G.
K. Fortescue and is held in the UIUC Library�016.942B77198 (RBX) or 016.942B77 (STX). The catalogue
arranges the tracts chronologically and features a separate listing for newspapers, as well as
alphabetical author, title, and topical indexes.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Manuscripts�Great Britain. Great Britain�History�Restoration,
1660-1688�Sources. Great Britain�History�Civil War, 1642-1649�Sources. Great
Britain�History�Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660�Sources.
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40- Three Centuries of English and American Plays: 1500-1830
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CALL NO: Uncataloged (RBX)
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PUBLISHER: Readex-Microprint
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PUB. DATE: 1953-1962
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FORMAT: Microcards: 5,500 cards, 152.4mm x 228.6mm
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NOTE: Reproduction quality excellent.
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REVIEWS: Booklist 61 (Feb. 15, 1965), p. 535.
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LANGUAGE: English
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DESCRIPTION:
- The collection contains over 5,000 plays. It includes every important play published in the
English languagein England from the year 1500 through 1800, and in the United States from 1714
through 1830, together with manuscriptsnever before published.
- The English plays were selected primarily from those included in the first 3 volumes of
Nicholl's work (see below). The editors were Dr. Henry W. Wells, Curator, Brander Matthews Dramatic
Library, Columbia University, and G. William Bergquist. The editors were guided by the goal of
being as inclusive as possible. Included are earliest editions available, and also editions
valuable for their texts, dating, rarity, inaccessibility to the public, and literary significance
in the history of drama. For example, included is the Malone Variorum of Shakespeare's works
(1821), as well as many adaptations of Shakespeare's plays presented in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
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ARRANGEMENT:
- The plays are arranged in separate chronological groups:
- 1516-1641 Elizabethan, Shakespeare, Jacobean
- 1642-1700 Restoration
- Early Eighteenth century
- Late Eighteenth century
- American
- Cards within each group are arranged alphabetically by playwright, or title if author is
unknown. Headings on the cards give author, title, etc.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES:
- A printed index is included with the collection:
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- 016.822B45T Bergquist, George William.
Three centuries of English and American Plays: A Checklist. NY: Hafner, 1963. (RBR),
(REX), (EGR), (MUR), (UGR), and (STX).
- Bibliographies of dramatic works for this period are listed below. For some there is indicated
the number of plays listed in the bibliography, and the number of those included in this
collection:
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- Q.A.822W87CSUP Bowers, Fredson T.
A Supplement to the Woodward and McManaway Check List of English Plays, 1641-1700.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1949. (EGR) (STX)
(RBR)
- A.822G86B Greg, Walter W.
A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. (Illustrated
Monographs, no. 24) 4 vols. London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University
Press, Oxford, 1939-1959. (EGR) (REX)
- 838 titles; 772 in this collection.
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- 015.82208 W124A1989 Harbage, Alfred.
Annals of English Drama 975-1700: An Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant or Lost,
Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies, Etc. Revised by
S. Schoenbaum. London: Methuen, 1964. (EGR)
- A.812H55A Hill, Frank P.
American Plays Printed 1714-1830: A Bibliographical Record. 1934. Reprints: NY: Arno,
1968; NY: Benjamin Blom, 1968; NY: Burt Franklin, 1970. (STX)
- 335 titles; 327 in this collection.
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- 016.812L85A Long, Eugene H.
American Drama from its Beginnings to the Present. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970.
(STX) (UGX)
- [not in LCS] MacMillan, Dougald.
Catalog of the Laprent Plays in the Huntington Library. (Huntington Library Lists, no.
4) San Marino, Calif.: Henry E. Huntington Library, 1939.
- 822.09 N54 HISTOR1952 Nicoll, Allardyce.
A History of English Drama 1660-1900. 6 vols. London: Cambridge University Press,
1952-1959. (EGX) (UGX)
- A.822 W87C Woodward, Gertrude L. and McManaway, James G.
A Checklist of English Plays, 1641-1700. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1945. (EGR) (STX)
(RBR)
- 1340 titles; 1260 in this collection.
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SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS: Drama, British--1475-1640; Drama, British--1640-1700; Drama,
British--1700-1800; Drama, UnitedStates--1714-1830.
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