Part - Material relating to 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun'

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Material relating to 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun'

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  • July-Dec. 1964 (Creation)

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9 ff. of printed material

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Shaffer, Sir Peter Levin (1926-2016), knight, playwright
(1926-2016)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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9 ff. of material relating to the production at the Chichester Festival Theatre, comprising ff. 63-72 of the scrapbook. There are 15 cuttings, most of them theatre reviews, including Bernard Levin's "The greatest play of our generation" from the 'Daily Mail' of 8 July 1964 and its follow-up "I was right -- It is the best new play" written after a second visit, and the third "Thank you Mr S for the greatest play in my lifetime" written on the play's transfer to London; other critics include Bamber Gascoigne, J. W. Lambert, and Harold Hobson.

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