John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1922–1925. Includes programme for Gielgud’s first public stage appearance in Henry V, with his annotations; his letter of acceptance into RADA, and his graduation diploma, dated 17 December 1923; and materials relating to As you like it; Barley, honey a...
John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1925–1929. Includes materials relating to Two gentlemen of Verona; The seagull; Dr Faustus; Gloriana, by Gwen John; L’école des cocottes, by Armont and Gerbidon; Hamlet (Royal Court, Rosencrantz); The constant nymph (New Theatre, October 1928, as unders...
John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1929-1930. Includes materials relating to the Old Vic season ― Richard II; A midsummer night’s dream; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Shaw’s Androcles and the lion (as the Emperor); Hamlet (as Hamlet), Henry IV (as Hotspur); and The tempest (as Prospero): as we...
John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1930–1931. Mostly materials relating to the Old Vic season: The jealous wife (as Lord Trinket); Richard II; Antony and Cleopatra (as Antony); Twelfth Night (as Malvolio); Much ado about nothing (as Benedick); King Lear (as Lear); and Arms and the man (a...
John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1931–1932. Includes materials relating to Richard of Bordeaux (as Richard); Musical chairs, by Ronald Mackenzie (Arts Theatre Club, November 1931; as Joseph Schindler); as well as his debut as a director in Romeo and Juliet, for the Oxford University Dr...
John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1932–1933. Includes materials relating to Strange orchestra, by Rodney Ackland (St Martin’s, September 1932), and Richard of Bordeaux (New Theatre, November 1933) as well as The merchant of Venice (Gielgud directing) and the film of The Good Companions....
John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1933–1934. Includes materials relating to Sheppey (Wyndham’s, September 1933); Spring 1600 (Shaftesbury); and Queen of Scots (New Theatre, June 1934), all of which Gielgud directed; and The Maitlands (Wyndham’s, July 1934, as Roger Maitland.) '7' gold-...