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Ransom Center Celebrates Tennessee Williams’s Induction into Poets’ Corner
Tennessee Williams visiting the Ransom Center reading room, November 2, 1973. Photograph by Frank Armstrong.Tennessee Williams will be inducted into the Poets’ Corner in The Cathedral of St. John the...
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In the galleries: Marlon Brando’s little black book
Inside cover of Marlon Brando's address book, which he lost during a 1949 production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'“On bended knee I beg you to return this. I lost eight others already and if I lose...
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Vivien Leigh takes a mad turn in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
Film still of Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' The Harry Ransom Center kicks off the Tennessee Williams Film Series tonight with Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire...
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In the Galleries: “Love and Relationships”
Photo by Anthony Maddaloni. In one of Tennessee Williams’s early writings in which he interviews himself, he identifies his audience as “the wild at heart kept in cages.” He also notes that the play...
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A production of Tennessee Williams’s iconic play A Streetcar Named Desire opened on campus last week, and director Jess Hutchinson delved into the Tennessee Williams collection at the Ransom Center to...
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Drama in the Archives: Humanities class fosters undergraduate research
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....
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Notes from the Undergrad: An alternate ending for A Streetcar Named Desire
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,...
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Notes from the Undergrad: Archive, cultural consciousness, and a semester in...
Colin McLaughlin is a radio-television-film, 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...
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