English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre Correspondence

Brickman, Miriam

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Winter, Ella

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Devine, George

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Miller, Olga

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Rogers, Pieter

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Willett, John

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Dessau, Paul, 1894-

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Beckett, John

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Hutchinson, Mary, 1889-1977

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Member of the Bloomsbury group. From the description of Mary Hutchinson Papers, 1910-1977. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145406393 Born in 1889 to Sir Hugh Barnes and Winifred Strachey Barnes, Mary (Barnes) Hutchinson spent her early childhood in India before being sent to boarding school in England. In 1910 she married a lawyer, St. John Hutchinson, and about the same time her cousin and conf...

Hauptmann, Elisabeth.

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England and Wales. Lord Chamberlain's Office

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McEwen, R. L. (Robert Lindley), Sir

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Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...

English Stage Company

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Black, Kitty, 1914-2006

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Royal Court Theatre

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The English Stage Company (ESC) is the resident company of the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London . The company and its work is the result of two disparate groups eventually uniting in a common cause. In 1953, directors George Devine and Tony Richardson devised a scheme to present 'the whole range of contemporary drama' in London with a small permanent company. Inspired by the work of Harley Granville Barker and John Eugene Vedrenne (who produced new plays by Shaw and Bark...

Curtis Brown Ltd.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Incorporated the literary agencies of Willis Kingsley Wing and Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., and others, and was closely associated with the English agencies of Curtis Brown Ltd. (London) and A.P. Watt & Son. From the guide to the Curtis Brown, Ltd. Records, 1914-2006., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co...

Ionesco, Eugene 1912-

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Romanian and French author, playwright, and critic, Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), was one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. From the description of Letters, photographs, and ephemera, 1969-2001. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 436464327 Eugene Ionesco, playwright. Tina Howe, translator. From the description of The lesson : typescript, 2004. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79468111 From the description of Th...

Brickman, Miriam

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Duncan, Ronald, 1914-1982

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Author. From the description of Papers 1960. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702663838 Ronald Duncan, playwright. From the description of The death of Satan: typescript, 1955. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626260 Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was born of Austro-German parents in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1914. When World War One broke out Ronald came to South London with his mother and sister. Hi...

Gwatkin, Norman, Sir.

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Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005

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American playwright and novelist. From the description of Collection, 1936-1979. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34363746 From the description of Manuscripts, 1952-1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122412075 From the description of Arthur Miller collection, 1936-1979. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 66895316 Arthur Miller, playwright. From the description of The crucible : screen...

Osborne, John, 1929-1994

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Epithet: playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000255 Epithet: Major; Bedfordshire Militia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000442.0x00024f Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch xi.87 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000700.0x0001b4 Epith...

Winter, Ella, 1898-1980

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Writer. Ella Winter (1898-1980) whose full name was Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart, was an economist by training and journalist by profession. She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart. From the description of Papers, 1913-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122622286 ...

Beckett, John

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Ramsay, Margaret, 1908-1991

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Margaret Francesca Venniker (always known as Peggy) was born on 27 May 1908 in Molong, New South Wales, Australia. Her father was an army doctor and Peggy travelled extensively with her parents as a child. Japanese culture in particular formed a lasting influence in her life as a result of a childhood visit. She was brought up in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. She was taught French and German by tutors and later educated at the Collegiate School in Port Elizabeth, Girton College in Johan...

Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980

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American dramatist, humorist, screenwriter. From the description of Letter to Ivan Somerville, [1922] December 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53284516 Donald Ogden Stewart, American playwright, humorist, screenwriter, and political activist, was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 30, 1894 to Gilbert Holland and Clara Landon Ogden Stewart. Stewart attended Philip Exeter Academy (1909-1912) and Yale University (1912-1916), where he was a member ...

Fox, Robin, 1943-

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Dennis, Nigel Forbes, 1912-1989

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Miller, Olga

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Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991

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Hyams, Barry

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Epithet: lyricist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x00019e ...

Lewenstein, Oscar, 1917-

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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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Brecht was a German dramatist and poet. Karl Korsch was a Marxist theoretician. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Korsch, 1934-ca.1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122556373 From the guide to the Bertolt Brecht correspondence with Karl Korsch, ca. 1934-1954., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reyersbach was a pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases; she came to the U.S. in ...

Nugent, Terence Edmund Gascoigne, 1895-1973

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Bentley, Eric, 1916-....

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Eric Russell Bentley (1916- ) was an American editor, translator and professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University. From the description of Eric Bentley papers, ca. 1960-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517495 From the guide to the Eric Bentley papers, ca. 1960-1964, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Eric Bentley, theater critic and dramatist. From the description of Eric Bentley letters to Mary Douglas Di...

Vosper, Margery

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Willett, John,

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MCA (England) Ltd.

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O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964

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Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, to Michael and Susan (Archer) Casey, a lower-middle class Protestant family. His father died in 1886. As a child, O'Casey suffered from trachoma, which affected his sight and made it difficult for him to succeed scholastically. He worked periodically throughout his adolescence as a stock boy, a van driver, and railway laborer. During this time, he became interested in Irish working class culture, as well as socialism and labo...

Devine, George F

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Arden, John

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Epithet: merchant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x000128 English playwright. From the description of Papers, 1959. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36382385 ...

Dessau, Paul, 1894-1979

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Scarbrough, Lawrence Roger Lumley, Earl of, 1896-1969

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Rogers, Pieter.

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McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967

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Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, as Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, the first born of Lamar and Marguerite Waters Smith. Though she moved from the South in 1934 and only returned for visits, most of her writing was inspired by her southern heritage. Her mother felt she had given birth to a genius from the time Carson was very young and always remained her staunchest supporter and strongest ally. When nine years of age, Lula began studying piano and practiced six to eight h...

Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

McEwen, R. L. (Robert Lindley), Sir

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Fox, Robin

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Vosper, Margery

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Duncan, Ronald Frederick Henry, 1914-....

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Epithet: playwright and poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x0001ad ...

Ionesco, Eugène

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English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre

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The English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London was founded in 1955 by a governing council consisting of Ronald Duncan, Oscar Lewenstein, James Edward Blacksell, Benjamin Britten, and the Earl of Harewood. Well-to-do businessman Neville Blond served as chairman of the council until his death in 1970. George Devine was asked to be the company's artistic director, and he brought on Tony Richardson as his assistant. Although it was a distance from London's theater distri...

Hyams, Barry

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Arden, John

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Hauptman, Elisabeth

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Gwatkin, Norman, Sir.

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