BIB_ID
87578
Accession number
MA 8552
Creator
Barthelme, Donald.
Display Date
New York, New York, between 1974 and 1976?
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (71 pages), unbound ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
A photocopy of the typescript the unproduced play based on his novel of the same title (published 1967).
Previous cataloging dates the play to 1974, but Michael Thomas Hudgens notes that Barthelme was working on the third draft of the play with the American Palace Theatre director Wynn Handman in 1976. See his Donald Barthelme: Postmodernist American Writer (2001), p. 91.
Signed in pencil by Barthelme on title sheet.
Typed on title sheet: "The American Place Theatre / 111 West 46th Street / New York, New York 10036."
Extensively marked and corrected by Barthelme throughout.
Previous cataloging dates the play to 1974, but Michael Thomas Hudgens notes that Barthelme was working on the third draft of the play with the American Palace Theatre director Wynn Handman in 1976. See his Donald Barthelme: Postmodernist American Writer (2001), p. 91.
Signed in pencil by Barthelme on title sheet.
Typed on title sheet: "The American Place Theatre / 111 West 46th Street / New York, New York 10036."
Extensively marked and corrected by Barthelme throughout.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Green cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)
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