January 11, 2013, Filed Under: Cataloging, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsSueltas feature cartoons by Spanish caricaturist Manuel Tovar Everybody loves cartoons. They proliferate in modern newspapers and on the Internet. From Peanuts to Doonesbury, cartoons provide commentary and amusement for the reader. The sueltas collection at the Harry Ransom Center, currently being cataloged under a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, also features its own… read more
January 6, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the Galleries: Norman Bel Geddes’s 1931 film of "Hamlet" production https://youtu.be/o_ud44hNLUE By the time Norman Bel Geddes began work on a contentious adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in 1931, he was considered an established theatrical designer and a pioneer of the New Stagecraft movement in America. Collaborating with literary advisor Clayton Hamilton, Bel Geddes abridged the play in order to… read more
December 11, 2012, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellow discusses work in wartime theater collection Laurence Raw, a fellow from Başkent University in Ankara, discusses his research on actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit’s World War II–era performances. Raw’s research, “Patriotic Shakespeare—Donald Wolfit’s Productions 1941–1953,” was funded by the Fleur Cowles Endowment.
