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Papers of Douglas Noël Adams
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Notes, draft pages and photocopies pertaining to Adams's Part I dissertation on Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno.

A note suggests that Adams passed, or intended to pass, this material to a fellow student: 'Dear Tony, Herewith Jubilate Agno. All my own notes are in random chaos and I doubt if you'll find anything useful in them without doing a sort of jigsaw puzzle exercise.' Manuscript and typescript.

William Shakespeare.

  1. Hamlet I.v.31-40 ('I find thee apt' to 'Now wears his crown') transcribed twice, followed by lines 31-37. Manuscript.

  2. Essay on 'Hamlet – a matter of life and death'. Manuscript.

  3. Essay on the 'vulgar nationalism' in Henry V. Typescript.

  4. Two versions of an essay on 'optimistic' tragedy and King Lear. Manuscript.

  5. Essay on Christianity in Measure for Measure.

  6. Essay on the possibility of 'theme' in Shakespearean comedy, specifically Much Ado about Nothing. Manuscript.

  7. Notes on Shakespearean tragedy. Manuscript.

  8. 'Scholarship Questions', with writing on The Winter's Tale. Manuscript.

Macbeth.

Unbound pages of a book taped to notepaper.

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) poet, playwright and actor

The Pearl-poet.

  1. Essay on Pearl: 'The significance of the Pearl herself is symbolic rather than allegorical'. Typescript with manuscript corrections and a concluding annotation.

  2. Essay on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: 'The descriptions of nature, of the seasons, of the hunt, all that glorious scene painting are in fact irrelevant to Sir Gawain's progress, physical and spiritual'. Adams opens with the suggestion that the quotation 'was specially dreamed up for the purpose of having the word "discuss" tacked on after it, for it seems to be almost insupportable'. Typescript with one manuscript correction.

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