Original set design by Robert Edmond Jones for Arthur Hopkins' 1920 Plymouth Theatre production, featuring a draped and canopied platform (four steps up), with a shadowy figure to the viewer's right. Castle walls make up the background
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General notes
Title from inscription in lower left margin; partially torn away
Artist: Jones was primarily a scenic designer and director who was associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill and is noted as having revolutionized American scene design. An index of theater designs of Robert Edmond Jones is maintained by the Olin Memorial Library of Wesleyan University
Design was executed for the 1920 production of Richard III staged in New York at the Plymouth Theatre. The production ran for 27 nights starting March 6, 1920, with John Barrymore in his debut Shakespearean role as Richard III
Also available as a digital reproduction
Acquired from Dramatis Personae in 2010
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