Papers, 1901-1921.

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Papers, 1901-1921.

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Magazine articles and newspaper clippings, mainly relating to world drama (1901-1919, chiefly 1905-1912), collected by Mencken as drama critic for The Baltimore Herald and The Baltimore Sun. Includes drama reviews, articles about the lives and works of major and minor playwrights of the era, and literary criticism. Subjects include Gerhart Hauptmann, Maurice Maeterlinck, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Edmund Rostand, George Bernard Shaw, and English, German, and Irish national theaters. Other items pertain to woman suffrage, censorship, and other social issues.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918

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French dramtist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified colleague, 1918 June 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657921 ...

Pinero, Arthur Wing, 1855-1934

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British playwright and actor. From the description of Letters, 1899-1903 : to F.A. Besant Rice. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34363756 British actor and writer; member of the Garrick Club. From the description of Letter written to Sir George Henschel, 1906. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122386412 Pinero was an English dramatist. From the description of Papers concerning The ...

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949

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Maeterlinck was a Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. Colles (1855-1926) was a English journalist, literary agent, and founder and managing director of Authors' Syndicate in London, England. From the guide to the Maurice Maeterlinck letters to William Morris Colles, 1921-1929., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist. ...

Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946

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Margarete Hauptmann was the second wife of Gerhart Hauptmann; they married in 1904. Maxa Mück was a friend of Margarete Hauptmann's. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1911-1952. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863425 Author. From the description of Letter of Gerhart Hauptmann, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450807 ...