Box 2

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Roneoed typescript, approx 200 leaves, 4to, cloth backed wrappers, the name of the typing agency vigourously crossed out on upper wrapper (but clearly legible in the blind-stamp to the leaf separating the 2 acts).

Boldly marked 'FINAL' in blue ink on the title-page, and a few corrections to the text. Rattigan's play about Alexander the Great was not his greatest success, but when it was adapted for television in 1961 it provided Sean Connery with his first starring role.

Scope and Contents: R. Bentley and S. Magnes, 1683, browned and foxed, pp. 61 (recte 65), [3], 4to, overstitched and cased in modern blue buckram. Rather extraordinarily, this copy seems to have been used twice for performance, once, close to the time of the printing, and again, in modern times. The evidence for its contemporary use are an ownership inscription on the title-page (?Ro[bert] Powle[y]), and notes on 6 pages giving stage directions. At some point in the 20th century a new list of...

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Edward Arnold, 1966, pp. xxi, 137, 8vo, original card wrappers.

Signed by Stanley Bates, who played the part of Bridewell in a touring production in the autumn of 1970, with Ian McKellen in the starring role: copiously marked up. Loosely inserted are 4 postcards addressed to Stanley Bates, one from Alec Guinness, and another from Ian (?McKellen), another from Shelagh Fraser.

Scope and Contents: Variously photocopied typescript and word-processor print-out, c. 100 leaves.Marked up for performance, apparently at Warminster School. Accompanying the playscript is correspondence between the author and Samuel French Ltd concerning the play (and earlier ones). In the end French declined to publish it, saying that although it is ‘charming and original and has a good deal of theatrical vigour ... [and though] it could be successful in a middle class country area, it is unlikely...