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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4123
Title'The Merchant of Venice' by Willliam Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1938
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Merchant of Venice' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes printed flyer [1938]; photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 21 Apr 1938, closing performance (60th) 11 Jun 1938; presented by John Gielgud; produced by John Gielgud and Glen Byam Shaw; decor and costumes by Motley; music composed and arranged by Herbert Menges

Cast: Leon Quartermaine, Harry Andrews, Cecil Winter, Richard Ainley, Glen Byam Shaw, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, Angela Baddeley, Peter White, Pardoe Woodman, John Gielgud, Frederick Lloyd, George Devine, Morland Graham, Alastair Bannerman, Genevieve Jessel, George Howe, George Hare, Hereward Russell, Barbara Dillon, Jane Henderson, Merula Salaman
Access StatusOpen

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