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The Morris Ring Folk Play Archive (Ron Shuttleworth Collection)

 Fonds
Reference code: 456
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a vast range of material relating to folk plays and related subjects, including books and booklets, journal articles, audio and video recordings, unpublished works such as theses, dissertations and essays, and some ephemera.The collection has been painstakingly assembled since the 1960s by Ron Shuttleworth who made it his aim to collect copies of everything that had been written on the subject of folk plays, and to provide access to the material to...
Dates: c16th century - 21st century

Theatre Archive Project: Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 349
Scope and Contents

The archive at Sheffield contains 170 CD-ROMs of interviews with theatre workers and audience members, including Glenda Jackson, Brian Rix, Susan Engel and Michael Frayn. There is also a collection of copies of correspondence between Gyorgy Lengyel and Michel and Suria Saint Denis, and between Gyorgy Lengyel and Sir John Gielgud, dating from 1958 to 1999.

Dates: 1958 - 2008

Theatre Royal Playbills Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PE 18
Scope and Contents A selection of printed playbills issued by the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1789-1838.The collection consists of playbills issued by the two Royal Patent theatres of London, the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden and the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Covent Garden theatre section begins in the year of the French Revolution, 1789, and announces a comic opera with a French name Fontainbleau together with a...
Dates: 1789 - 1838

Unfinished Histories Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 395
Scope and Contents

A collection of CDs and DVDs recording interviews with those involved with the alternative theatre movement in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, along with related material.

Dates: 2007 - 2017