January 14, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts“Der Bestrafte Brudermord”: A puppet version of “Hamlet”? Tiffany Stern, Professor of Early Modern Drama at Oxford University, delivers the English Department’s Thomas Cranfill Lecture about her research on the play Der Bestrafte Brudermord (Fratricide Revenged) at the Harry Ransom Center this Thursday, January 16 at 4 p.m. Stern, the Hidden Room theater company, and the American… read more
January 9, 2014, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Stella Adler and Harold Clurman papers shed light on evolution of Method acting Justin Owen Rawlins is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture and the Department of American Studies at Indiana University. He visited the Ransom Center in May and June 2013 on a dissertation fellowship to conduct research for his dissertation, “Method Men: Masculinity, Race and Performance Style… read more
November 8, 2013, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing ArtsArtifact in Harry Houdini scrapbook collection highlights career of mind reader “The White Mahatma” The Ransom Center recently launched a new platform of digital collections on its website, which includes the Harry Houdini scrapbook collection. More than 50 items from that collection, including the scrapbook highlighted in this blog post, can be viewed on the new platform. American magician S. S. Baldwin (1848–1924),… read more
