Plays – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Edward Rose and the Rose Reader

Posted on 9 December 2016 by Madelin Evans

A new addition to the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives collections, MS Add.10138 (Edward Rose: writings and family correspondence), tells the story of the […]

‘Plots upon the stage’: Restoration drama in the University Library

Posted on 3 August 2015 by Liam Sims

In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Rare Spanish plays on display

Posted on 24 October 2013 by Emily Dourish

The Library has recently acquired a remarkable collection of 1,852 comedias sueltas; these are short plays printed in Spain between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, […]

Exhibitions, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions