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Notes from the Undergrad

Notes from the Undergrad: Student uses archival materials to explore Nietzschean nihilistic reading of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

April 2, 2015 - Maureen Clark

Letter from Samuel Beckett to Maya Peron. Dated June 12, 1969. The Carlton Lake Collection. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. All rights reserved.

Maureen Clark is a third-year government and Liberal Arts Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Clark shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Student uses archival materials to explore Nietzschean nihilistic reading of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Undergraduate

Notes from the Undergrad: Reviving Linda Loman in “Death of a Salesman”

March 30, 2015 - Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Williams working with archive materials.

Kenneth Williams is an English and Plan I Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Williams shares his experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Reviving Linda Loman in “Death of a Salesman”

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Arthur Miller, Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Stella Adler, Undergraduate

Notes from the Undergrad: Feeling Samuel Beckett’s pain and “Godot” in German

March 23, 2015 - Lily Pipkin

Lily Pipkin with Samuel Beckett's letter. Photo by Pete Smith.

Lily Pipkin was a Plan II student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Pipkin shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Feeling Samuel Beckett’s pain and “Godot” in German

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Samuel Beckett, Undergraduate

Notes from the Undergrad: Investigating the ending in David Mamet’s “Oleanna”

March 17, 2015 - Emily Robinson

David Mamet on set of "The Postman Always Rings Twice." Photographer unknown.

Emily Robinson is a rhetoric and writing and Plan I Honors senior in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Robinson shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Investigating the ending in David Mamet’s “Oleanna”

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: David Mamet, Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Undergraduate

Notes from the Undergrad: An alternate ending for A Streetcar Named Desire

March 12, 2015 - Haley Williams

Haley Williams looks at archive materials with Professor Elon Lang. Photo by Pete Smith.

Haley Williams is a psychology/Plan I Honors senior in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Williams shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: An alternate ending for A Streetcar Named Desire

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Audrey Wood, Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Stella Adler, tenesse, Tennessee Williams, Undergraduate

Drama in the Archives: Humanities class fosters undergraduate research

February 24, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Elon Lang, seated in the center, and undergraduate students from "Drama in the Archives" view collection materials. Photo by Pete Smith.

Have you ever wondered how a play or film might have turned out differently? This was the guiding question in the new Humanities Honors course—titled “Drama in the Archives”—offered in fall 2014 by Dr. Elon Lang, lecturer and former part-time archivist at the Ransom Center. During the semester, Lang brought students from his class to the Ransom Center at least once per week to learn about the Center and to learn how to conduct original primary research in the Center’s theater and performing arts collections. [Read more…] about Drama in the Archives: Humanities class fosters undergraduate research

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Undergraduate

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