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Grouse in June

1939 comedy play by N.C. Hunter

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ96379975 ↗
Source-derived summary

Grouse in June is a 1939 comedy play by N.C. Hunter, in which a group of Americans hunt for treasure lost on the Scottish coast when the Spanish Armada was washed ashore in 1588.

After premiering at Richmond Theatre, it ran for 126 performances in the West End at the Criterion and New Theatres. The cast included Robert Beatty, Arthur Hambling and Hugh McDermott.

References

Bibliography

Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Grouse in June” is 1939 comedy play by N.C. Hunter. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Grouse, June and comedy, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1588, 1930, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Grouse, June and comedy is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1939 comedy play by N.C. Hunter” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96379975. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1588, 1930 and 2014.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grouse in June” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.