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Series III: Scripts, undated, 1961-1971, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

This series is a collection of scripts Ewen used in his classroom and works he used for his stage adaptations; for example, there is a copy of Magic Mountainwith Ewen's notes for his own adaptation. There are also scripts for adaptations of works by Ibsen, Aristophanes, Alfred Levinson, and Leo Tolstoy. The adaptations of The Magic Mountainand The Nihilists were done in collaboration with John Randolph and Phoebe Brand.

The Keep by Gwyn Thomas, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Baruch D'Amsterdam by Henri Sloves, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Phedreby Racine; Oedipus the King by Sophocles, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Professor Benrhardi by Arthur Schnitzler; The Way of the World by Congreve, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Cave by Edmund B. Hennefeld, 1964, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jacob's Dream, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Lesser Ship by Edmund B. Hennefeld, 1965, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Loyalties by John Galsworthy, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Look Back, Mrs. Lot-"The Difference" by Ephraim Kishon, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Jewess of Toledo by Franz Grillparzer, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Baal-Shem and the Renegade by Arnold Zweig, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Infernal Machine, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Jew by Richard Cumberland, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peter Gyntand A Doll's House by Ibsen, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Enemies; Lower Depths; The Miracle at Verdun, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Four-Poster, undated, inclusive

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Chicken soup with Barley by Arnold Wesker; Egmont by Goethe, undated, inclusive

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The Mandarins; Dance to Death by Emma Lazarus, undated, inclusive

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Distant Pointby Alexander Afinogenov; Untitled, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Awakening of the Prophet, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Edom, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Criminals by Jose Triana; Socrates Wounded by Alfred Levinson; The Chain by Alfred Levinson, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wings Over Europe; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Frogs by Aristophanes Scenes from Peace by Aristophanes, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Antigone by Anouilh, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Vision and Synthesis: The Drama of Chaim Weizmann by Frederic Ewen, 1962, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, undated, inclusive

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Exodus by Leon Uris, undated, inclusive

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No Title, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Love's Labor's Lost by Shakespeare, 1966, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

How to Become a Gentlemanby Anonymous; Modern Children by Sholom Aleichem, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

My First Day in America by Yuri Suhl; Cowboy on a Wooden Horse by Yuri Suhl; What Happened to My Chicken Liver? by Yuri Suhl, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Love and Intrigue by Fredrich Schiller; Don Carlos by Fredrich Schiller; William Tell by Fredrich Schiller, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Silver Tassie by Sean O'Casey, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Death of Sam, Slaughter House for Fowls, The O'Bannion Scene, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The School for Scandal by Sheridan; Transfiguration by Toller, undated, inclusive

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The Trojan Women by Euripides; Lysistrata by Aristophanes, undated, inclusive

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The Cause of It All by Leo Tolstoy, undated, inclusive

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Uriel, undated, inclusive

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Torquato Tasso by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, undated, inclusive

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A Question of Honor by Max Nordau, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Young Hopefuls by Leo Tolstoy; What Men Live By by Leo Tolstoy; The Cause of it All by Leo Tolstoy; Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Woman Make Trouble from "The Unknown Chekhov"; Polinka Adapted from a story by Anton Chekhov; Two of a Kind by Anton Chekhov; The Bear by Anton Chekhov, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Days of the Commune by Bertolt Brecht, 1971, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

An Evening with Anton Chekhov produced by Frederic Ewen, John Randolph and Phoebe Brand [poster], 1961, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment MSOS003, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Tribute to Anton Chekhov adapted by Frederic Ewen, John Randolph and Phoebe Brand, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Unknown Chekhov by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand and John Randolph, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Nihilists by Frederic Ewen and John Randolph adapted from Fyodor Dostoyevski's The Possessed, 1970, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Nihilists by Frederic Ewen and John Randolph adapted from Fyodor Dostoyevski's The Possessed, 1970, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Magic Mountain adapted by Frederic Ewen and John Randolph, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Magic Mountain adapted by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand and John Randolph, 1964, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Magic Mountain adapted by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand and John Randolph, 1964, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Magic Mountain adapted by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand and John Randolph, 1965, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Magic Mountain adapted by Frederic Ewen, Phoebe Brand and John Randolph [poster], 1964, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment MSOS003, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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