Hardback notebook including manuscript miniature theatre play-scripts, set designs with characters, cardboard cut out characters, and an essay, by Jack Butler Yeats
Description
Includes an illustrated text of Timothy Coombewest or Esmerelda Grande, and five watercolour and ink, on card, characters from the play pasted to subsequent leaves; six illustrations of scenes and characters from James Dance or The fortunate sailor boy; six sketches of scenes and characters from ‘Onct more’s great circus, second year, 1902’; and an illustrated essay by Yeats explaining both the motivation for, and the practicalities of, mounting his miniature theatre productions for the children of Strete, Devon.
Creator
Yeats, Jack Butler
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| Title | Hardback notebook including manuscript miniature theatre play-scripts, set designs with characters, cardboard cut out characters, and an essay, by Jack Butler Yeats |
|---|---|
| Creator | Yeats, Jack Butler |
| Date | [1900-1902] |
| Type | Component |
| Ref | IE NGI/YA/Y1/JY/2/1/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Condition | Good |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 61pp |
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