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Drama

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Use for: Dramas ; Plays ; Playscripts ; Scripts, Stage ; Stage plays ; Stage scripts ; Theatrical works DU Note: If a specific type of drama is involved (Examples: Detective and mystery plays, Morality plays, Musicals, Puppet plays, War dramas) assign both headings. For scripts. also assign AAT: Plays (Literary genre)

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Accession: Grey and Byron Collection, B458

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023.095
Dates: 1908 - 1964

Accrual: National Council of Jewish Women, B094

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2024.040
Dates: 1958 - 2023

Aida, 1960 June-July

 Item
Identifier: M123.02.0395.0025.00002
Abstract Program of the Central City Opera House Association's 1960 production of "Aida".Production staff includes: Emerson Buckley (musical director / conductor), Nathaniel Merrill (staged / directed), Robert O'Hearn (scenic / lighting director), Mattlyn Gavers (choreography), Thomas Martin(associate conductor), Kurt Saffir (assistant conductor), Roger Dexter Fee (chorus master), Faber B DeChaine (stage manager), Larry Poston (assistant stage manager), Ann Shaw(costume mistress), Anne...
Dates: 1960 June-July

Beck Archives Rare Book Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B391
Abstract

This collection was created to contain rare books in the Beck Archives not associated with a collection. It currently includes one autographed copy of the play "Zalmen or The Madness of God" by Elie Wiesel.

Dates: 1974

Bobbie Louise Hawkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M474
Abstract Bobbie Louise Hawkins (July 11, 1930 – May 4, 2018) was raised in West Texas and studied art in London. After traveling extensively, she settled in Colorado. Bobbie wrote more than twenty books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and performance monologues. She was married to Robert Creeley for eighteen years and they had two (2) children. The collection consists of art and written works, notebooks, correspondence, photographs, audio/visual items, and other materials created and collected by...
Dates: 1960 - 2018

Box 1

 File — Box M385.0001: [Barcode: U186024878035]
Identifier: M385.0001
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains 3-, 4- and 5-act plays bearing copyright dates between 1873 and 1913. The actual copies representing 19th century plays are later transcriptions.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1913

Box 1: Scripts and Drafts, 1955-1968

 File — Box M035.0001: [Barcode: U186023288766]
Identifier: M035.01.0002
Abstract This box contains scripts and materials related to scripts (drafts, correspondence, notes, and photographs) written by Russell Porter. The scripts are arranged chornologically. The scripts included are: Silverheels (1955), Land of Promise (1960), A Gathering of Some Importance (1961), Early Dawn (1961), No More from Throns (1962), Gilpin County Chronicle (1964), The Wizards of Balizar (1964), The Hanging Judge (1964), Decorator Rides Again (1968), Shale Oil (no date), Faces West (no date),...
Dates: 1955-1968

Box 1: Scripts, Poems, Lyrics, c. 1920

 File
Identifier: B458.04.0001
Abstract

Box includes five [5] file folders from the writing and music series. File folder seven: lyrics and sheet music; file folder eight: notes and short stories; file folder nine: poems; file folder ten: short story by Dorothy Grey; file folder eleven: scripts.

Dates: c. 1920

Box 2

 File — Box M385.0002: [Barcode: U186024878027]
Identifier: M385.0002
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains 3-, 4- and 5-act plays bearing copyright dates between 1873 and 1913. The actual copies representing 19th century plays are later transcriptions.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1913

Box 2: Scripts by other authors

 File — Box M035.0002: [Barcode: U186019602267]
Identifier: M035.01.0003
Abstract This box contains papers, publications, and bound scripts of plays not written by Russell Porter. The plays include: A Porch and a Wide Verandah (Roland Hughes), A Room Full of Roses (Nantha N. Barrett), The Annotated Hamlet (Mordecai Gorelik), The Ballad of Hot Dog Cooley (Barry Pritchard), The Ballet of Carnival and Lent (Russell Graves), The Baron's Will (Hjalmar Bergman), The Busy Martyr (George Hitchcock), Change (Arthur Pittman), Dr. James Himlton (Carole Winner), The Easter Bunny...
Dates: 1933-1986