The Invention of Love, by Sir Tom Stoppard: notes, drafts, and associated correspondence, with related reseach materials. Autograph, with typewritten, fax copy, and printed sections.
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Almost complete set of the author's working documents for The Invention of Love, from the first genesis of the idea in the early 1990s to drafts for the theatre programme both for the opening run at the National Theatre in 1997 and the subsequent production in the USA. Includes scholarly and sub...
The Invention of Love, by Sir Tom Stoppard: notes and sectional drafts (1994-1997)
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Notes and sectional drafts, substantially in the author's hand. Typewritten and fax copies of text heavily annotated in black ink by the author, with frequent additions of new handwritten text sometimes interlineated and sometimes on new sheets.
The Invention of Love, by Sir Tom Stoppard: notes and drafts (1995).
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Notes include timelines, one written by the author on the inside of a manilla document folder. Some of the drafts are written on the reverse of sheets originally used for drafts of a translation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
The Invention of Love, by Sir Tom Stoppard: sectional drafts (May - June 1996)
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Drafts both typed and in fax copies, with heavy annotations in the author's hand. The cast of characters and the setting of the play takes definite shape for the first time. Includes draft letters to Professor David West about Catullus, written on the verso of cancelled typewritten drafts of the ...
The Invention of Love, by Sir Tom Stoppard: sectional drafts (July 1996)
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Typewritten and fax copy drafts with heavy annotation by the author in red and black ink, and pencil, and handwritten drafts by the author also annotated in red ink. Includes draft of a letter to Professor David West.
The Invention of Love, by Sir Tom Stoppard: sectional drafts (August 1996)
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Typewritten and fax-copy drafts with heavy annotations in ink by the author, with much new or heavily altered text handwritten in ink and further annotated. Some of the pages of notes entirely handwritten in red ink.