| Description | Correspondence, 19 July 1952-5 April 1983.
Correspondence includes details of the background to the volume, the selection of editors, notes on the text, proof reading, winning the 1970 Graphic Arts Award, breaking of the world record by students at Royal Holloway College for reading the complete works of Shakespeare, the death of Professor Alfred Harbage on 2 May 1976, the publishing of a Penguin paperback edition in 1981, and revisions to the text in 1983. Also includes editorial plan and specimen pages of The Pelican Shakespeare, October 1954, and a list of editors with their postal addresses.
Correspondents include Professor David M. Bevington, Professor Matthew Black, Hildelith Cumming (Stanbrook Abbey Press), Chris Dolley (Penguin Books Inc., USA), Professor Willard Farnham, Eunice Frost (Penguin Books Ltd.), Harry T. Gardner (PIA Awards Committee), A.S.B. Glover (Penguin Books Ltd.), Professor Alfred Harbage (Harvard University), Dr G.B. Harrison, Robert B. Heilman, Professor Charlton Hinman (University of Kansas), Dr Helena Hooker (Queen's College, Flushing, New York), Serena Kahn (Viking Penguin Inc., USA), Walter J. Keller (Penguin Books Inc., USA), Sir Allen Lane (Penguin Books Ltd.), Jack C. McCoy (Kingsport Press, Inc.), Donal McFarlan (Penguin Books Ltd.), James G. McManaway (editor, Shakespeare Quarterly), Professor Maynard Mack (Yale University), Peter Mayer (Penguin Books Ltd.), H.F. Paroissien (Penguin Books Inc., USA), Professor Christopher Ricks (University of Bristol), Jacqueline Rigano (Penguin Books Inc., USA), Hans Schmoller (Penguin Books Ltd.), Tatyana Schmoller (Penguin Books Ltd.), Professor Brents Stirling, Professor George Williams (Duke University), W.E. Williams (The Arts Council of Great Britain). |