Identity area
Reference code
SHAF/B/17/5/1
Title
Notebooks labelled 'Peter Shaffer, a Monologue with Interruptions' [third notebook CLOSED]
Date(s)
- [late 20th cent.-21st cent.] (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
3 vols.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Three green ring bound Pukka Pad notebooks containing drafts of Shaffer's memoir written in the form of a play, with a few other miscellaneous scenes from plays which may be related. Notebook I also contains drafts of a letter to a critic about an article on Benjamin Britten, notebook 2 has the most writing of the three and contains material for act II, with possible additional material for 'Amadeus' and 'The Syllabub Saloon.'
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions governing access
The third notebook is CLOSED as it contains personal information about living people.