Letters : from various correspondents, 1925-1976.

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Letters : from various correspondents, 1925-1976.

Consists of letters addressed to Sprague from various critics and Shakespearean actors. Correspondents include Robert Atkins, Nevill Coghill, Baliol Holloway, Godfrey Tearle, Alan Wilkie and Donald Wolfit, among others.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6764773

Houghton Library

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Sprague, Arthur Colby, 1895-1991

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Sprague was American Shakespearean scholar. From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1925-1976., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Sprague was an American Shakespearean scholar. From the description of Letters : from various correspondents, 1925-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122560940 ...

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Wolfit, Donald, 1902-1968

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Donald Wolfit was born in Nottinghamshire in 1902. As a young man he worked as an assistant stage manager with Charles Doran's Shakespeare Company, and began to pick up small parts on the stage. He later went on to work with Alexander Marsh and with Matheson Lang, and gradually built up a name for himself as a respected actor. He worked at the Old Vic and began working in films, saving this profits in order to start his own company, which he formed in 1937. He played most of the major Shakespear...

Holloway, Baliol,

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Wilkie, Alan, 1878-1970,

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Tearle, Godfrey,

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Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980

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University teacher and theatre producer. Epithet: writer and translator of Chaucer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x00011f ...

Atkins, Robert, 1886-

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