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

Scope and Contents This collection's strengths are in manuscripts of works Beckett wrote during the 1960's. Among the highlights are the set of 16 drafts for the story "Bing," as well as extensive groups of drafts for short pose pieces such as "Assez," "Le Depeupler," and "Imagination morte imaginez;" the heavily revised galley proof of the Olympia Press edition of the novel Watt; and the successive drafts for ...

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

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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The Ruby Cohn Papers consists largely of manuscripts toward published and unpublished essays and lectures on Samuel Beckett. In addition, the collection includes correspondence and manuscripts toward published and unpublished essay and lectures on modern theater and analyses of playwrights.

Scope and Contents Corrected ribbon typescript with ink and pencil annotations,150 pages. Includes envelope identifying this as made from Samuel Beckett's copy of Mercier et Camier in Raymond Federman’s hand, circa 1960.Edited typescript of Beckett’s first novel written in French, originally drafted in 1946 but unpublished until 1970 by Editions de Minuit.This appears to be an intermediate state of Beckett’s French text, with many typing errors and with manuscript corrections throughout, mostly...