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The Wives' Excuse

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Records relating to music composed by Guy Woolfenden for the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) 1994 production of Thomas Southerne's play 'The Wives' Excuse'.

Includes Woolfenden's script containing music cues, instrumental parts and full scores for various cues, and lists of music and sound cues. There is also a photocopy of a newspaper article entitled 'Lost score restored to the stage' dated Thursday July 14, 1994, which details Woolfenden's discovery of four songs written for the play by the composer Henry Purcell. There are various copies of Woolfenden's arrangements of these songs alongside copies of the original score by Purcell.