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Nine playbills and one poster relating to productions of Samuel Beckett's plays

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11 posters relating to productions of Samuel Beckett's plays or celebrations.

Scope and Contents A pair of Burroughs’ “automatic drawings” from the cycle of Surrealistic experiments he created in Paris while his 1959 novel Naked Lunch was being prepared for publication. Inspired to try his hand at visual pieces by the artist Brion Gysin—who was assisting Burroughs in the organization of the book, and would later become a long-time collaborator—the drawings arrange loose circular spirals and diagonal scrawls, respectively, in rows and columns over the...

Scope and Contents Consists of three items: Waiting for Godot prompt book used for the landmark 1975 Berlin production at the Schiller-Theater that Beckett himself directed; Waiting for Godot prompt book directly reflecting the significant, Beckett-generated emendations the author made to the 1975 version; and a program for the 1965 production of Waiting for Godot at the...

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One playbill for "The American Place Theater Presents THE KID by Robert Coover"; One black and white photograph of Coover, circa 1980

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Correspondence from Hawkes to William Matheson and a poster advertising a reading by Hawkes.

Scope and Contents The Lawrence Levy Collection of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass consists of photocopies of correspondence between William H. Gass, Lawrence Levy, and Charles Newman related to the publication of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife as well as10 photocopied drafts and newspaper clippings. Also included are photocopied letters and memos from Levy related to the sale of an archive of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife materials and resulting dispute over ownership with Northwestern...