August 16, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsMy Friend Bill Yellow Robe by JACE WEAVER The Harry Ransom Center is proud to hold the papers of playwright and poet William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. A member of the Assiniboine Tribe, Yellow Robe was a lecturer at the University of Maine and the award-winning author of Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers, Wood Bones,… read more
July 25, 2022, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsInterpreting “Fringe” in the Mel Gordon Papers Mel Gordon’s Notes on Expressionism with 1917 clipping, Mel Gordon Collection, Box 12, Harry Ransom Center. by MACAELLA GRAY In 2018, The New York Times lauded historian, curator, and writer Mel Gordon as a “drama scholar of the fringe.” At first glance, the so-called “fringe” certainly seems to find a… read more
February 24, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsRadclyffe Hall, playwright? First page of Radclyffe Hall’s Two and One: Comedy in 3 Acts, ca. 1925. Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Collection. Harry Ransom Center. by LIBBY CARR English author Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was one of the first authors to make lesbians visible in mainstream literature, and a forerunner of… read more
