Reviews, essays, lectures, tributes, and miscellaneous writings

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
2 "Slamkin Festival" in the granta magazine Item May week 1951
3 Scrapbook of cuttings of book and music reviews from Truth and Time and Tide Item 1956-1961
4 Scrapbook of cuttings of music reviews from Time and Tide Item 1961-1962
2 Drafts of an essay, "Some Observations on the Official Guidebook to the Kingdom of Farce" Item [1967]
4 Newspaper cutting, "What we Owe Britten", The Sunday Times Item 18 Dec. 1973
6 Draft of an essay defending subsidised theatre in Britain Item [late 1980s]
1 Printed tribute, "Epilogue. An Epilogue for A Theatrical Occasion" for the tribute to Lilian Baylis Item 6 May 1974
7 Drafts, "Battlements at Midnight," inaugural lecture at Oxford as Professor of Contemporary Drama Item Feb. 1994
10 Notebook containing material relating to the third Oxford lecture ["The Treason of Clerks"?] Item [1995]
14 Offprint, 'Brooding in the Snow,' from the Shakespeare Jahrbuch Item 1996
20 Draft, "Brooding in the Snow: The Lesson of Shakespeare," a lecture at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts Item 2 May 2002
21 Draft of two speeches about Tennessee Williams given at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Key West Item Mar. 2003
22 Draft of a speech at the Colorado Festival of World Theatre Item [2006]
24 Partial drafts of a tribute to the National Theatre[?] Item [2012]
2 Drafts for captions in a book of Al Hirschfeld drawings Item 25 Mar. 2005
1 Draft and printed article, "The Nonconforming Shakespeare" in Show Item Feb. 1964
3 Newspaper cutting, "Surface recollections of an ex-Bevin Boy", Evening Standard Item 24 Jan. 1972
7 Draft of an essay, "Morocco: A Ten Days'' Impression" Item [20th cent.]
5 Copy draft of a speech accepting the Shakespeare Preis given by the Stiftung F.V.S. zu Hamburg Item 25 May 1989
6 Printed article, "The Ideal Playwright. Universal Poet, Perhaps; Universal Storyteller, Certainly" in The Dramatists Guild Quarterly Item Summer 1992
8 Drafts, "Brooding in the Snow," second lecture at Oxford as Professor of Contemporary Drama Item 3 May 1994
13 Draft, "Battlements at Midnight" used for an unidentified speech Item 1995
15 Copy draft tribute to Derek Jacobi at the presentation of the John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts Item 24 Apr. 1997
1 Transcript of an interview between Peter Shaffer and IW [Irving Wardle?] about John Dexter and Peter Hall Item 30 May 1980
1 Follower Magazine Item Mar. 1950
5 Drafts of a review of "Oh What a Lovely War" Item [1963]
8 Draft, "A Programme Note on Programme Notes" Item [20th cent.]
2 Drafts of a tribute to John Gielgud Item [c 1980?]
3 Drafts of remarks and extracts of plays and a poem for a public reading [at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center?] Item [1986?]
4 Copy draft of remarks at the presentation of the UJA Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert Lantz Item 19 Sept. 1988