Burton's copies of twelve Shakespeare plays, kept when an undergraduate at Oxford and early in his career at the Old Vic and the New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Company), comprising: King John Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V (two copies), Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Coriolanus, The Tempest and the Poems, five signed by Burton, many ruled with cuts by the prompter; Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 marked up in ink by Burton for the part of Prince Hal, The Tempest for the part of Ferdinand; one copy of Henry V inscribed "Richard Burton/ Oxford 1946", the other marked as property of the Stratford Festival Company and "Mr [Anthony] Quayle"; Twelfth Night with the Old Vic stamp; King Lear, with ownership inscription of Rosemary Evans, Goneril's understudy, and marked up by her; both copies of Henry VI in the Temple Shakespeare edition, all the rest New Temple Shakespeare, usual signs of wear, 16mo, c.1944-1950s, sold as association items and not subject to return
Burton's copies of twelve Shakespeare plays, kept when an undergraduate at Oxford and early in his career at the Old Vic and the New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Company), comprising: King John Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V (two copies), Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Coriolanus, The Tempest and the Poems, five signed by Burton, many ruled with cuts by the prompter; Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 marked up in ink by Burton for the part of Prince Hal, The Tempest for the part of Ferdinand; one copy of Henry V inscribed "Richard Burton/ Oxford 1946", the other marked as property of the Stratford Festival Company and "Mr [Anthony] Quayle"; Twelfth Night with the Old Vic stamp; King Lear, with ownership inscription of Rosemary Evans, Goneril's understudy, and marked up by her; both copies of Henry VI in the Temple Shakespeare edition, all the rest New Temple Shakespeare, usual signs of wear, 16mo, c.1944-1950s, sold as association items and not subject to return
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