F2

Tom Stoppard – Shakespeare In Love

F2 a. UK Edition

1. First Edition

Faber and Faber. Published 1999. Paperback. Half title, title, [i], 155 pages numbered 1-155, [vii] film credits. Throughout the text are small black and white stills from the film. Pages 196mm x 124mm. Front: a composite image from the film of Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; at the top right in black ‘(ff logo)’; at the bottom in a black rectangle in yellow ‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE | MARC NORMAN AND TOM STOPPARD’. ISBN 0-571-20108-3. Price on back cover £6.99.

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F2 b. USA Edition

1a. First Edition Hardback

Miraxmax / Hyperion. Published 1998. Hardback. White endpapers. Half title, title, [i], 155 pages numbered 1-155, [vii] film credits. Throughout the text are small black and white stills from the film. Pages 209mm x 133mm. Black paper covered boards; down spine in gilt: ‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE A Screenplay  Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard  MIRAMAX/HYPERION’.

Dustjacket. 504mm x 215mm. Front: a composite image from the film of Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; across the top in white ‘NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE’; at the bottom in yellow ‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE’, in white ‘A Screenplay’, and in yellow ‘Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’. ISBN 0-7394-0317-6. Price on back cover Canada $14.95.

1b. First Edition Paperback

Miraxmax / Hyperion. Published 1998. Paperback. Half title, title, [i], 155 pages numbered 1-155, [vii] film credits. Throughout the text are small black and white stills from the film. Pages 233mm x 152mm. Front: a composite image from the film of Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; across the top in white ‘NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE’; at the bottom in yellow ‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE’, in white ‘A Screenplay’, and in yellow ‘Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’. ISBN 0-7868-8485-1. Price on back cover $10.95 / Canada $14.95.

2. Screenplay – Second Draft

The MW collection has a copy bound with two brass brads and white card covers. It is labelled ‘Second Draft’ and dated September 1992. The credit reads ‘A screenplay by Tom Stoppard from an original screenplay (June 1992) by Marc Norman’. The cover sheet has a handwritten note ‘Start: 1^st ¼ 97 in UK’. There are 124 pages of text numbered 1-124.

3. Screenplay – Final Draft

The MW collection has a copy bound with a steel clip and the cover sheet is labelled ‘Final Draft’. It is dated 22^nd January 1998. There are 129 pages numbered 1-129.

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