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Manuscript and Print Cultures Seminar

Tuesday 9th December 5.15pm (FAB 5.49). Dr Julian Richards, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, for a talk called "The Hunt for Howard - Archive Ephemera and Promptbook Doodles"

Julian guides us through his decade long vendetta against a stick-man and his bicycle found in a prompt book at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The search covers ten years, two full postgraduate degrees, three heads of the theatre in Stratford, the founding of two major theatre institutions, and a long-running soap opera. The stick-man's identity, history, career trajectory and legacy are all uncovered and explored. The bicycle remains unexplained.