SHAW (George Bernard).
Misalliance. With a Treatise on Parents and Children.
With a manuscript note pasted to the rear endpaper, initialed by George Bernard Shaw. A director’s copy, possibly William Armstrong, the play heavily annotated and with a few notes to the first blank. Pasted to the rear endpapers a typed letter, signed by William Armstrong, from The Playhouse in Liverpool dated 14th February 1924 asking permission to put on a production of Misalliance, asking how to do it in two acts, and Blanco Posnet, with Shaw’s manuscript reply at the bottom ‘Misalliance? Yes. Blanco? No: Melville is touring it. Misalliance was played originally in 3 acts, or rather with two descents of the curtain, one just before the aeroplane alarm, and the other (‘just before’ crossed out) where Lina led off Tarleton to exercise him. The difficulty about Misalliance is the casting of Tarleton: a Falstaffian part’. Covers spotted.
