MS 685 01 21 05
Reference code
MS 685 01 21 05
Title
Ellen Terry archive material: Ellen Terry’s scripts
Level
File
Date
1878-[1905]
Extent & medium
3 boxes containing 16 items
Content description
Containing Ellen Terry’s personal copies of the scripts for plays she performed in, often alongside Henry Irving. Some have Terry’s autograph inscriptions and annotations and are signed by Terry.
Some of the scripts are incomplete.
The scripts are printed and bound, although in a poor condition, with a number of the pages detached.
They have been divided into three boxes containing the following scripts:
Box 1:
- Iolanthe, an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan (1881)
- Peter the Great, a play in five acts by Laurence Irving (1898)
- Camma, a tragedy
- King Lear, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving [1892]
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving (1878)
- Becket, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving [1893]
Box 2:
- Ravenswood, by Herman Merivale (1889-1890)
- Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving (1896)
- Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving (1895)
- King Arthur, by J. Comyns Carr [1895]
Box 3:
- Macbeth, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving [1889]
- Nance Oldfield, by Charles Reade [1891], enclosed is a photograph of Terry and Edward Gordon Garden who also acted in the play
- Olivia, by William Gorman Wills [?]
- Othello, by William Shakespeare
- Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare [1905]
- The Medicine Man, by H. D. Traill and Robert S. Hichens [1898]
Some of the scripts are incomplete.
The scripts are printed and bound, although in a poor condition, with a number of the pages detached.
They have been divided into three boxes containing the following scripts:
Box 1:
- Iolanthe, an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan (1881)
- Peter the Great, a play in five acts by Laurence Irving (1898)
- Camma, a tragedy
- King Lear, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving [1892]
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving (1878)
- Becket, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving [1893]
Box 2:
- Ravenswood, by Herman Merivale (1889-1890)
- Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving (1896)
- Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving (1895)
- King Arthur, by J. Comyns Carr [1895]
Box 3:
- Macbeth, by William Shakespeare and arranged for the stage by Henry Irving [1889]
- Nance Oldfield, by Charles Reade [1891], enclosed is a photograph of Terry and Edward Gordon Garden who also acted in the play
- Olivia, by William Gorman Wills [?]
- Othello, by William Shakespeare
- Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare [1905]
- The Medicine Man, by H. D. Traill and Robert S. Hichens [1898]
Physical characteristics
The scripts are printed and bound, although in a poor condition, with a number of the pages detached.
Contained in three yellow bound boxes
Contained in three yellow bound boxes
Location of this record in the archive hierarchy
Click the hyperlinked text below for further details.
(Click here to scroll to the current record within the hierarchy)
Number 5 of 5 at this Level
- Next: No next sibling at this level
- Previous: E.A. Craig collection: Ellen Terry archive material, MS 685 01 21 04, ([1847]-1967)
Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
None