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Harold Acton papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 663
Abstract: The collection consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of Harold Acton's translations of Chinese literary works and his writings; correspondence from Chinese, English, and American scholars and friends; material relating to a lecture tour of Italy; and other papers. Highlights include the unpublished manuscript for Popular Chinese Plays, which was once thought lost, as well as correspondence concerning its projected publication by Henry Vetch. Also...
Dates: 1932-1941

African American television scripts

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 90
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of scripts and a small number of photographs documenting television programs featuring African American actors, entertainers, and topics from the 1950s through the 1990s. While some material from an earlier period of television broadcasting is present, including Amos and Andy (1952), Buelah (1950-1953), and The Jack Benny Show...
Dates: circa 1950-1998

Adelina Carola Appleton Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 128
Abstract:

Music and other materials by Adelina Carola Appleton (1886-1958).

Dates: 1890-1921

Enid Bagnold papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 78
Abstract:

The papers contain personal and professional correspondence and other papers, including a scrapbook, which document Bagnold's personal life and writing career.

Dates: 1912-1971

George Pierce Baker Pageant Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 16
Abstract:

The collection consists of programs, scripts, and memorabilia relating to folk, theatrical, and historical pageants collected by George Pierce Baker in the early part of the twentieth century. The collection includes a copy of the pageant George Pierce Baker authored for the American Society of Engineers.

Dates: 1899-1939

George Pierce Baker papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 385
Abstract:

The George Pierce Baker Papers contain scripts from a scenario workshop that he taught at Yale and student papers from other courses.

Dates: 1910-1949

George Pierce Baker papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 51
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia documenting George Pierce Baker's professional activities as head of the Department of Drama at Yale University. Correspondents include playwrights, critics, actors, and producers, who had been Baker's students. The papers detail Baker's activities as a lecturer, consultant to the film series Chronicles of America, chairman of the executive committee of the American Shakespeare Foundation, and...
Dates: 1878-1958

Philip Barry papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 414
Abstract: The Philip Barry Papers document Barry's development and career as a playwright, from his earliest production at Yale in 1919 to his final work in 1949. The Papers are composed chiefly of Barry's notes, sketches, and drafts of his plays, materials relating to the production and publication of his plays, and correspondence with friends, family, fans, and colleagues in the worlds of theater and literature. Additional materials are also present, including scripts of plays by other authors,...
Dates: 1917-1950

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 839
Abstract: The Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection is a mixed-provenance collection of material by and related to Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Series I, Robert Browning Papers, contains a few manuscripts by him, as well as many letters, most written after 1870. Recipients include Mrs. Bayne; Isabel Jane Blagden; Moncure Conway; Charles Deschamps; Frank Hill; William Charles Macready; Felix Moscheles, and William Wetmore Story. Letters to Browning include an...
Dates: 1835-1906 1850-1889, bulk 1850-1889

"Collection towards forming a history of the now obsolete office of the Master of the Revells"

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN D1
Abstract:

Autograph MSS.

Dates: 1874-1874

Thomas Campbell papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 106
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, commonplace books, and other papers related to Thomas Campbell. Correspondence consists of a copy of a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Campbell. Campbell's writings include drafts of essays and biographies included in Specimens of British Poets; additional biographies of British poets; lectures on English poetry and drama; an annotated copy of The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell; English history timelines, 872-1189; and research notes on English history and...
Dates: 1821-1846

Sandi Carroll Papers Relating to Early Productions of August Wilson's Seven Guitars

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 188
Abstract: The papers consist of scripts, notes, rehearsal schedules, venue descriptions and other materials that document the productions of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and on Broadway in New York City, in 1995-1996. The material also provides a record of how characters and dialogue in the play were changed and developed during these productions. Also included are several corrected proofs of the script as it was being prepared for...
Dates: 1995-1996

Barrett H. Clark papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 569
Abstract:

The Barrett H. Clark Papers document the work of American writer, editor, translator, and drama scholar, Barrett H. Clark, spanning the dates 1905 to 1953. The papers contain correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs, and printed material providing insight into Clark's scholarship on drama. Correspondents include: Maksim Gorky, Paul Green, Eugene O'Neill, and Betty Smith.

Dates: 1905-1953

Nancy Cole Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 749
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of correspondence, including letters from Kay Boyle, Donald Gallup, Robert Haas, Marcel Marceau and the artist Henry Miller; photographs; clippings; printed material; sound recordings; and manuscripts relating to the production of Nancy Cole's one-woman show, Gertrude Stein's Gertrude Stein, and other projects, including One of Each.

Dates: 1947-1986

Mercedes Moore DeMare Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1702
Abstract:

The papers consist of student notebooks, syllabi, and other course materials belonging to Mercedes Moore DeMare, a 1936 M.F.A. graduate of the drama program in the Yale University School of the Fine Arts.

Dates: 1930-1936

Drama 50 Script Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 29
Abstract:

This collection contains scripts and other materials produced as part of the Drama 50 course at the Yale School of Drama.

Dates: 1995-2001

Bernard Frank Dukore Collection of Peter Barnes

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 625
Abstract: The collection consists of material relating to Peter Barnes, which was created and accumulated by Bernard Frank Dukore in the course of his research on the work of the British dramatist and screenwriter. Material includes incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence between Dukore and Barnes, dating from 1978 to 2004; copies and typescripts of original plays, adaptations, and scripts by Peter Barnes, some of which are inscribed or annotated; audio recordings of BBC productions of Barnes's...
Dates: 1958-2007

Dwight/Edgewood Project collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 15
Abstract:

The Dwight / Edgewood Project is a non-profit organization that brings children together with Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre artists to create theater. This collection documents the activities of the project from 1995-2008 through photographs, scripts, programs, and administrative papers.

Dates: 1995-2008

Walter Prichard Eaton writings

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 505
Abstract:

The writings consist of manuscript and typescript drafts of various works by Walter Prichard Eaton. Included is a typescript draft of The Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in the 90's by Charles Morris.

Dates: 1919-1954, undated

Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Evreinow correspondence and papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 296
Abstract:

52 ALS and 15 TLS from N. N. Evreinov to Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Evreinow, 6 carbons of letters from Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Evreinow to N. N. Evreinov. Also includes correspondence between Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Evreinow and Anna Aleksandrovna Evreinova, Arthur Lourié, and various printed materials (theatrical programs, clippings, memorial notices) and photographs relating to N. N. Evreinov.

Dates: 1926-1959