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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Copy of parts of The merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1680.

Title: Copy of parts of The merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1680.

Includes part of Act III, scene v and Act IV, scenes i-v. These leaves were written to supply missing ones in a prompt copy of The merry wives taken from a third folio edition of Shakespeare's Works, and, like others in the Folger excerpted from the same volume, prepared for the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, ca. 1680. See R.C. Bald's article in PMLA, LVI, 369.

ArchivalResource: 8 leaves

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Wilson, John, 1626-1696. Belphegor, or, The marriage of the devil [manuscript], [1677?].

Title: Belphegor, or, The marriage of the devil [manuscript], [1677?].

Play by John Wilson. Prompt copy of the play first produced at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Some of the corrections and additions were incorporated in the first printed edition of the play in 1691 (Wing W2915). Autograph corrections and additions. Main hand that of the person who copied the missing pages for the Smock Alley copy of Merry wives of Windsor, V.b.240.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Victor, Benjamin, d. 1778,. Autograph letters signed from Benjamin Victor, Dublin and London, to various people [manuscript], 1759-1774.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Benjamin Victor, Dublin and London, to various people [manuscript], 1759-1774.

Correspondents: [Charles] Macklin and Mrs. Pigott. The letter of 1759 discusses terms for Macklin's and his daughter [Maria's] appearance [at the Smock Alley Theatre] and suggests certain comedies. The letter of 1774 advises Mrs. Pigott on her acting of the heroine in "Jane Shore" and includes his "Prologue for the Tragedy of Jane Shore, to be perform'd in Staffordshire by Ladies and Gentlemen," beginning "Our Annals tell, to grace the Drama's page..." The letter also discusses "the Affair of the Colonies!" The letter apparently was written after the one printed in his Original letters...1776, I, 352.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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