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Donald Wolfit Papers TXRC00-A19., 1803-1984, (bulk 1937-68)

Title: Donald Wolfit Papers 1803-1984 (bulk 1937-68)

The papers of this British Shakespearean actor and theatre manager consist largely of performance-related materials, supplemented by correspondence, literary works, and personal papers.

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Wolfit, Donald, 1902-1968. Donald Wolfit Papers, 1803-1984 (bulk 1937-68).

Title: Donald Wolfit Papers, 1803-1984 (bulk 1937-68).

The bulk of the Donald Wolfit Papers (the Theater Papers series) comprises promptbooks, scripts, costume and scenic designs, music, plots, property letters, and other materials for thirty-nine plays, many by Shakespeare, and for a small number of recitals and radio broadcasts. Generally, this series documents Wolfit's role as actor-manager and the contributions of the designer Ernest Stern and Wolfit's music advisor Rosabel Watson. The series also includes administrative and financial records, publicity materials, and world tour files. The latter pertain to Wolfit's and Rosalind Iden's trips abroad in 1959 and 1960 and contain significant quantities of letters from Wolfit's agent John Coast and the Kenyan promoter Donovan Maule. The Correspondence series illuminates Wolfit's artistic choices and opinions, and the myriad details involved in managing a theater company. Notable correspondents are Felix Aylmer, Winston Clewes, Edward Gordon Craig, Basil Dean, John Gielgud, M.C. Glasgow, Tyrone Guthrie, Hugh Hunt, John Maynard Keynes, Hugh Linstead, Laurence Olivier, Percival M. Selby, George Bernard Shaw, and J.C. Trewin. Subjects include the Actors's Equity strike, the National Theatre, and Wolfit's dispute with the Old Vic. The Works series contains holograph manuscripts, typescripts, and notes for nearly forty speeches, lectures, poems, and short fiction and nonfiction pieces. The Miscellaneous series holds memorabilia and items of a personal nature. The Works by Other Authors series gathers together materials relating to works about Wolfit, including biographies by Ronald Harwood and George W.Y Porter, and works which were sent to him by his correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 29 document boxes, 16 oversize boxes, 1 flat file drawer (13.78 linear feet)

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