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The Hardy Players Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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The Hardy Players were an amateur theater company in Dorchester, England, formerly known as the Dorchester Debating and Dramatic Society.
The collection consists of typewritten scripts, photographs, programs, announcements, and other items relating to English amateur theater productions of plays adapted from Thomas Hardy novels and short stories. Six scripts, or actors' sides, contain notations believed to have been made by Thomas Hardy. The collection was compiled by E. J. Stevens and his daughter, Vera Stevens Mardon, both members of "The Hardy Players," an amateur theater company in Dorchester, England, formerly the Dorchester Debating and Dramatic Society.
Organized and arranged in this order: scripts, original musical score manuscript, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Purchased from David Holmes in 1988. (AM 2001-86)
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Folder list prepared by Lisa Yankowitz '13 in 2012.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
Pencil annotations believed to have been made by E. J. Stevens who played Squire Derriman
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Blue pencil correction in the last line of p. 2 of Act II appears to be by Thomas Hardy. Signature of E. J. Stevens, who played Will Latimer, appears on cover. Other pencilled annotations believed to have been made by Stevens.
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Signature of E. J. Stevens, who played Joseph Sommers, appears on cover. Other pencilled annotations believed to have been made by Stevens. May have been used with broadcast version of "The Three Wayfarers" given on December 20, 1926.
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Mrs. E. J. Stevens played Mrs. Cawtree
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Signature of E. J. Stevens, who played Melbury, appears on cover. Other notations believed to have been made by Stevens. Pinned in at the front cover are two carbon copies, in an unknown hand, of character and costume descriptions for Melbury and Mrs. Cawtree
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Thomas Hardy appears to have pencilled in the date of the action of the play in three places (pp. 1, 7, and 11). E. J. Stevens, who played Mr. Wildeve, appears to have made annotations throughout.
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Thomas Hardy appears to have printed dialogue on pp. 13 and 20. Signature of E. J. Stevens, who played Clerk Crickett, appears on cover. Other notations appear to have been made by Stevens.
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Thomas Hardy appears to have printed dialogue on pp. 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, and 12. E. J. Stevens, who played King Mark, appears to have made notations throughout.
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Original sewn wrappers marked "Sergt. Troy." E. J. Stevens played the part of Sergeant Troy. Pencil notations throughout. Several dialogue sheets and additions.
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Performed as an interlude to "The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall" and elsewhere
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