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Title:
Oscar Wilde, autograph draft of An Ideal Husband
Scope & Content:
Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph drafts of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband. Includes Acts I, II (two versions), III and IV. Act IV appears to represent the earliest version, in which Mabel Chiltern is named Violet up to f. 216, where the change to Mabel is made. Acts I, II a an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1894]
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Typescript of An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde, with autograph corrections
Scope & Content:
Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Typewritten copy of a draft of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, with autograph corrections.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1894]
Extent:
1 item

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Title:
Oscar Wilde, autograph draft of A Woman of No Importance, titled Mrs Arbuthnot, with corrections and additions
Scope & Content:
Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph draft of Oscar Wilde's play, A Woman of No Importance, titled Mrs Arbuthnot, with many corrections and additions. Gerald Arbuthnot is named Aleck in Acts I-III, but Gerald in Act IV; Hester is named Mabel throughout. First performed at the Haymarket ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1892-1893]
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 37945

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Title:
Oscar Wilde, two typed versions of Mrs Arbuthnot, with autograph corrections
Scope & Content:
Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Two typed versions of Oscar Wilde''s play Mrs Arbuthnot, later retitled, A Woman of No Importance, with autograph corrections. The second version (f. 92) is nearer to the final printed version. At folio 92 is a suggested cast, differing considerably from the a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892-1893
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Oscar Wilde, autograph draft of Lady Windermere's Fan: Acts I-IV
Scope & Content:
Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph draft of Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan, with corrections and annotations. Incomplete and differing greatly from the published version. First performed at the St James's Theatre, 20 February 1892, and published 1893.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1891]
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Oscar Wilde, early drafts of Acts II and IV of Lady Lancing
Scope & Content:
Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph and typewritten drafts of Oscar Wilde''s play The Importance of Being Earnest, titled Lady Lancing. Acts II and III were compressed into Act II in the published version. At folio 1 is a draft in pencil of part of the final version of Act I, and at fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894
Extent:
1 volume

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