B65.2 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING [1965]

[in yellow:] The National Theatre | [in white:] Much Ado About Nothing | [in yellow:] William Shakespeare | [in yellow on red background:] [sketches of costume designs]

Collation: 1 sheet of stiff card, as cover; 2 sheets of slick paper; l one sheet of purple paper; 5 sheets of slick paper. All folded once, quired and stapled twice at centre.

p. [1] cover as title-page; p. [2] printed solid black; pp.[3]-[6] advertisements; [7] blank; p. [8] Acknowledgements, typography and printer’s notices; p. [9] photograph; pp. [10]-[11] stage history of play; pp. [12]-[16] photographs of performances; p. [17] A note on Shakespeare’s Italy; pp. [18]-[20] photographs of this production; pp. [21-23] About the director, with photographs; [p.24] photograph of Graves by Tom Blau; pp. [25]-[26] Textual Changes | A Note by Robert Graves; pp. [27]-[28] Bernard Shaw on Beatrice and Benedict; pp. [29]-[30] The National Theatre: a short history; pp. [31]- [34] advertisements; p. [35] printed solid black; p. [36] printed solid red.

23.0 × 13.9 cm. Bulk: 0.4 cm.

Price: Unknown. Number of copies unknown. Published 16 February 1965 in stiff paper covers printed in red and yellow, with title of play in white.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘Textual Changes’ (pp. [25]–[26]).

Another copy of this theatre programme, in the covers as described above, has tan (rather than purple) paper used for pp. [7]-[8] and [29]-[30] and p. 26 is slick white paper printed in black, rather than being black on a yellow background. The contents are otherwise identical to the copy described above.