March 30, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsStage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” — As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII) For four centuries, Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies have held up a mirror… read more
January 19, 2016, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellow finds a kindred spirit in Shakespearean actor-manager Donald Wolfit Laurence Raw obtained a Fleur Cowles Fellowship to study at the Ransom Center in Spring 2011. He consulted the papers of British actor Donald Wolfit, which the Center acquired in the early 1990s. Comprising prompt books, stage plots, photographs, letters, diaries, and other ephemera, the Wolfit archive is the largest… 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.
