Item 1 - Notebooks labelled 'Peter Shaffer, a Monologue with Interruptions' [third notebook CLOSED]

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SHAF/B/17/5/1

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Notebooks labelled 'Peter Shaffer, a Monologue with Interruptions' [third notebook CLOSED]

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  • [late 20th cent.-21st cent.] (Creation)

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3 vols.

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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.'

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The third notebook is CLOSED as it contains personal information about living people.

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