Ransom Center Magazine

Books + Manuscripts

Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient wins the Golden Man Booker Prize

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Congratulations to Michael Ondaatje, whose 1992 novel The English Patient was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize on Sunday, July 8. Ondaatje’s archive was recently acquired by the Harry Ransom Center and contains extensive materials relating to the award-winning novel. [Read more…] about Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient wins the Golden Man Booker Prize

Scholarship, time machines, and madness

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by Beth Burns, Hidden Room Theatre Artistic Director

John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook for Richard III

“Ready trumpet. Boy ready with armor. Take time. More piano. Long flourish continued till discovery, next Sc. – and do not W Till Mr Booth is on stage.” [Read more…] about Scholarship, time machines, and madness

Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England

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I visited the Harry Ransom Center last July to research bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, grammars, and language manuals printed in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England

The Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play

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by David Levy

After a fruitful visit to the Harry Ransom Center in January, I tweeted,

“Who would have thought that I’d run into a Thomas J. Wise “sophistication” in my Hoyle research @ransomcenter?”

Like so many tweets, this is a bit tough to parse. Let’s break it into pieces: Hoyle, Wise, and “sophistication.” [Read more…] about The Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play