BIB_ID
89404
Accession number
MA 8669
Creator
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
Display Date
Stinson Beach, California, 1959?
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (33 pages), bound ; 29.2 x 23 cm
Notes
Draft of a playscript of part one of Medea, with 2 pages of a description of the stage and and murder scene. Published as "Medea at Kolchis: the Maiden Head" by Oyez in 1965.
Caption titled "Medea *part one* The Maiden Head."
With an autograph note from Julian Beck dated "NYC Feb. 1985" on the final page: "This text was sent to us (i.e. The Living Theatre) in 1959 for consideration for production but the opportunity -- the right occasion or moment -- never came & the play remained unproduced."
The Morgan Library also holds the printed version of this play (PML 184920).
Caption titled "Medea *part one* The Maiden Head."
With an autograph note from Julian Beck dated "NYC Feb. 1985" on the final page: "This text was sent to us (i.e. The Living Theatre) in 1959 for consideration for production but the opportunity -- the right occasion or moment -- never came & the play remained unproduced."
The Morgan Library also holds the printed version of this play (PML 184920).
Provenance
Julian Beck; Carter Burden.
Housed in
Brown cloth drop-spine box (31 cm)
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