Series[UMA-SRE-20140044] EARLY YEARS ACADEMIC, PERFORMANCE, WRITING AND PERSONAL PAPERSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004400002Scope and ContentNotebook called 'Marciana', holograph. Contains Germaine Greer's initial research notes for her PhD on William Shakespeare's early comedies. Title inside front cover 'Taming of the Shrew Researches'. Hardcover, burgundy notebook, Ideal series, British made. MARCIANA is written on the top fore edge of the book. Notes in English, French, Italian. Call slip, Biblioteca Querini Stampalia (the civic library of Venice) with sketch on back slipped into p39; card Moises G Barguin Diaz Restaurante Burgos and sketch in page 48. Germaine Greer's notes go from pages 1 to 65, from the front to the back. A different notebook begins by flipping this one over and reading it from the back page, titled Vietnam sketch. It contains drafts, 6 pages, for a satirical sketch that opens 'I have been asked by the Minister to address you on the eve of your depature for England upon the subject of Australia's image'. One page is ripped in half. All the drafts are struck through with black pen. The Marciana notebook is named for the 1560 Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice (the National Library of St Mark's). In the preface to her Cambridge University PhD thesis (submitted 1967), Greer thanks 'staff of the Cambridge University Library, the Bodelian, the British Museum, the Biblioteque Nationale, and especially of the Marciana in Venice, for their unfailing cooperation and courtesy'.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0044 Unit 0001Copyright StatusUniversity copyrightConditions of Use and ReproductionCopyright owned by University of Melbourne. For information about ordering a copy of this image contact the University of Melbourne Archives: archives@archives.unimelb.edu.auMenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
