File 11 - Draft and proofs of The Tragedy of King Richard the Third

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Draft and proofs of The Tragedy of King Richard the Third

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  • 1879 (Creation)

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385 sheets, c. 430 printed pages in octavo gatherings

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Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
(1831-1914)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Draft of the preface and notes; three corrected proofs of the preface, July-Aug. 1879, one of which has notes in an unidentified hand, with a note at the end, "If you wish to speak of Richard's Character, and agree in Hare's view of it, turn all this Coleridge twaddle into a few lines of your own good Prose, into which Hare is quite out of tune." Accompanied by a draft of the playscript and notes dated July-Oct. 1879.

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