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-...
John Gielgud Archive. 1942–1943. Cuttings, etc., relating to Macbeth (touring production, January 1942); The importance of being Earnest (Phoenix, October 1942); and Love for love (tour and Phoenix, March/April 1943, as Valentine). All these plays Gielgud also directed.
John Gielgud Archive. 1952–1953. Cuttings, etc., relating to Macbeth (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, as director); Richard II (Lyric, Hammersmith, as director); and The way of the world (also Lyric, Hammersmith, as Mirabell); and to the film of Julius Caesar (as Cassius). Also inclu...
John Gielgud Archive. 1954–1955. Cuttings, etc., relating to Twelfth night (Memorial Theatre, Stratford); Much ado about nothing (Palace Theatre, as Benedick, and also directing); King Lear (also the Palace, and on tour, as Lear) and Richard II (Royal Theatre, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, as Richard.
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...