Autograph letter signed from Sir John Gielgud, Wotton-Underwood nr. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to Dr. Werner Gundersheimer, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library [manuscript], January 23 [19]90.
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Autograph letter signed from Sir John Gielgud, Wotton-Underwood nr. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to Dr. Werner Gundersheimer, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library [manuscript], January 23 [19]90.
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Summary
Sending regrets for an invitation of April 5. "Unfortunately I am under contract to go to Holland from the middle of March and through April to play Prospero in a ... film version of Shakespeare's Tempest for the directo Peter Greenaway. It has long been a great ambition of mineto see the play filmed by and original and imaginative artist, and I have great hopes the result may prove worthy of the subject."
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Accompanied by a note from Dr. Gundersheimer and the original envelope for the Gielgud letter.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271893 (flat)
Folger-specific note
Gift of Dr. Werner L. Gundersheimer.
Folger accession
271893