The Acharnians : an album relating to the production of Aristophanes' 'The Acharnians" at Leamington College, Warwickshire, 1892.

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The Acharnians : an album relating to the production of Aristophanes' 'The Acharnians" at Leamington College, Warwickshire, 1892.

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Contains correspondence, photographs, music, and other printed items relating to the production of Aristophanes' "The Acharnians" in 1892, inspired by the headmaster of Leamington College at the time, W. J. Ford. For this production Ford performed the role of Dicaeopolis and spoke a new parabasis, written by himself. The items are pasted onto 22 unnumbered leaves of the album and consist of 1) Autograph letter from Ford's widow, Kitty, to his brother Lionel Ford, 5 June 1922 presenting this volume. -- 2) Large handbill or poster for the production (28 x 21.5 cm), printed in red and black, advertising dates and times of the three performances on 15, 17, and 20 June. -- 3) Caricature frontispiece designed (according to Mrs.Ford's letter and a review pasted into the volume) by Henry Ford, fourth brother of W.J. Ford. -- 4) Printed programme (2 p., 24.5 x 18 cm.) for the play, detailing actors, scenery designer, composer, etc. -- 5. 8 large photographs (each approx. 15 x 20.8 cm.) of the action and set of the production; with a general view of the college, taken (according to a review which reproduces one of them) by Smart and son of Leamington. With captions in ink, presumably by W. J. Ford. -- 6) A large variety of press cuttings of review of the play, beginning with the school magazine ("The Leamingtonian") and continuing with local and national journals, including the Leamington News, the Birmingham Post, the Daily Graphic, Vanity Fair, the Cheltenham Chronicle and the St. James's Gazette, all identified in the same hand as item 5. -- 7. Text of the Parabasis written by W. J. Ford, in both Greek and English (facing pages), printed but cut out and mounted; with a note also in the same hand. -- 8. The Music to the Acharnians of Aristophanes. Composed for performance at Leamington College in 1892 by George Prior, Mus: D: Oxon. Small folio, 15 p., the title page printed in letterpress (on green card) and the main text of the music reproduced in photolithography(?).

1 v. ; 30 x 20 cm.

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Ford, Katherine Macey.

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Prior, George, fl. 1892.

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Ford, Lionel, 1865-1932.

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Leamington College (Leamington, England)

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Ford, H.J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941

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Ford, W. J. (William Justice), 1853-1904.

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Writer on cricket. In his youth W.J. Ford was recognized as a considerable cricket player for both his school, Repton, and his university, Oxford. Ford taught first at Marlborough College and then became principal of Nelson College, New Zealand, where he met and married Katherine Macey Browning in 1887. In 1890 Ford became headmaster of Leamington College. After three years there he retired and wrote on cricket and other sports. From the description of The Acharnians : an album relat...