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Description: | Spiral-bound notebook labelled on the front cover 'Shsp' in Leon Garfield's hand. The notebook contains fragments of prose retellings by Garfield of several plays by William Shakespeare, including 'The Tempest', 'Othello' and 'The Taming of the Shrew' [all published in 'Shakespeare Stories' (Gollancz, 1985)], along with a brief outline of the plot of Shakespeare's 'King Richard III' and a fragment of Garfield's retelling of the story [published in 'Shakespeare Stories II' (Gollancz, 1994)]. Following on from these fragments of Shakespeare, are partial manuscript drafts of two stories taken from the Old Testament. One appears to be a retelling of the story of Daniel in the lion's den and the other a retelling of the fall of the city of Jericho. Neither story appears to have been published, although the Jericho story was intended for inclusion in the Leon Garfield Memorial Volume of 'Beyond the Boundaries', which was planned but ultimately not published.
The notebook has also been reversed and used from the back for fragments of Garfield's retellings of Shakespeare's plays 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'Cymbeline' and 'The Winter's Tale' [all published in 'Shakespeare Stories II']; for brief contextual notes on Shakespeare's plays 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'; and for a brief fragment of what appears to be a dramatised version of 'The Odyssey' by Homer. This fragment may relate to 'The Wanderer', a radio dramatisation of 'The Odyssey' by Leon Garfield which was broadcast on BBC Schools Radio in 1984. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Rights holder: | Seven Stories | Subjects: | Seven Stories | Source: | Seven Stories | Identifier: | LG/01/23 | Go to resource |
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