The Inventory of the Eric Bentley Collection #323 Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Bentley, Eric 1916 - l>ti.rch, 1967 Box 1 A CENTURY OF HERO WORSHIP Boston, Beacon Press (Contemporary Affairs and Series) 1957. Box 2 Revised second edition. a. Typescript with printer's marks of preliminary pages and Foreword. 13 pp. b. Printed pages of first edition pasted on sheets with holograph corrections and some typescript. 11 pp. c. Typescript 10 pp. d. Printed pages of first edition with holograph corrections. pp. 2 - 260. e. Printed pages of first edition pasted on sheets with holograph corrections. 6 pp. f. Typescript of Index 13 pp. g. Galleys of Index with holograph page of corrections. h. Galleys - 5 sets. 1 set with author 1 s holograph corrections, marked "This copy corrected by E .B." Bentley, Eric Box 2 TBE THEATRE OF COMMITTMENT 1967 Typescript with holograph corrections. 178 pp. Galleys Bentley, Eric Addenda, August, 1968 Box 3 Folder 1. ANTIOONE Preliminary draft for script. Typescript ~ith many holoo corro, 64 PP• Prologue to ANTIGONE Typescript with holo. corr., 15 PPo Carbon typescript with holoo corr., 15 pp. THUNDER OVER THESSALY Script by EB. Based on Euripides 1 "Andromache" Typescript with many halo. notes, 36 PPo Draft of Spring, 19570 THUNDER OVER. THESSALY Draft of Summer 1957 o Typescript witp halo. corr., 56 PPo COMMITMENTS by EBo Script of two plays: Antigone and Thunder Over Thessalyo Mimeograph, 73 PPo Folder 20 .ANTIGONE a) Mimeo typescript with holo. noteso 49 PPo b) Different versiono Mimeo with holoo corr., 49 pp. COMMITMENTS Contains "Thunder Over Thessaly" only. Mimeo typescript, 34 PPo ANTIGONE 1660 Mimeo typescrjpt, 50 pp. Different from other versions. Addendum June 1968 (Purchase) Package 1 Recording: "Bentley on Biermann. Songs and Poems of Wolf Biermann; Translated and Performed by Eric Bentley" Addendum July 1968 Package 2 Recordings: 1. "Bentley On Brecht~ Folkways Records. 2. "Songs of Hans Eisler". Folkways Records. Bentley, Eric Addenda, July, 1968 Box 4 THE WIRE HARP Translation of book by Wolf Biermann. a) "Original" Typescript with holo. corr., 55 pp., holograph, 4 pp., photocopy of typescript, 3 pp. , carbon typescript, 9 pp. b) "Final" Photocopy of typescript. 7 4 pp. Printed 7 issues of Daily Columbia Spectator Dec. 1965 - May, 1967. Each contains article by ERic Bentley. 9 issues of New York Free Press May 1968. Articles on Columbia student disorders. Addenda, December, 1968 Box 5 THE THEATRE AND OTHER REVIENS 1. M;i.nuscript com1osed of tear sheets ~nd Xerox typescri~t Fages, with holo. corrections and printer's marl<:s. 116 ,,. 20 Page proofs with ,rinter's marks. 456 pp. Addenda February 1969 Box 6 WHAT IS THEATRE AND OTHER REVIEWS. Atheneum, 1968. 1. Preface and Index~ Typescript with holo. corr. and printer's marks. 81 p. 2. Galleys with printer's marks. 2 sets. Bentley, Eric Addenda, February, 1969 by PURCHASE THE IDEA OF THE HEID IN THOMAS CARLYLE AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, WITH SOME Box 5 MENTION OF RICHARD WAGNER, BERNARD SHAW, OSWALD SPENGLER, FftIEDRICH GUNIX)LF, AND D. H. LAWRENCE; OR THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEROIC VITALISM 1800 - 1930. Dissertation presented to Yale University for the Ph.D. 19Ll. Typescript (Xerox copy) 3 77 pp. Addenda, March, 1969 by Purchase from ColUJlbia University Microfilm. Box 6 "Psychology and the Critic of Literatureo A Chapter in 20th Century Thought" by E~ic ~entley. 11 This M3 was written in 1938-39, accepted in the latter year as a Ho Litto thesis by 0xfor~ UniTersity, revised in the years 1939-41, accepted for pu1'lication by the University of Chicago Press whose editorial •arkings will be found in red and blue pencil, but neTer published. Only two fragaents haTe ever appeared-na11ely in The Rocky Mounta.in ReTiew under the titles n'fhe Second-"iDest :Bed," and "The E-rl;r Io A. Richards"o BENTLEY, ERIC Addenda: Purchase of October 1969 Byer, Jay Warren. THE HISTORY OF ERIC BENTLEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AMERICAN THEATHRE. PhD 1967. Carnegie-Miller University. Xerox copy, 188 pp. BF.NTLEY, ERIC Addenda, February, 1970. Manuscript Box 7 1. "Happy End The Prologue and Songs" English text by Eric Bentley. c. 1970. Xerox of typescript, 14 pp. 2. "The Threepenny Opera Songs" by Bertolt Brechto Translated by Eric Bentley, 1960. Mimeo of type8cript, 24 PPo Ph:tograph Glossy photograph of Eric Bentley. 8 x 10. BENTLEY, ERIC Addenda: June/July 1970 Folder 1 PLAYS A. THE RED WHITE AND BLACK 1. Under title: BULLSHIT. Dated: August 11, 1969. Carbon typscript and photocopy of typescript with holograph corrections. Ca. 50 pp. Folder 2 2. Typescript, carbon typescript, and photocopy of typescript with holograph corrections. Ca. 75 pp. Folder 3 B. A TIME TO LIVE AND A TIME TO DIE. Grove Press. 1969. 1970. 1. "Antigone" A TIME TO DIE . 1967. Photocopy of typescript with some holograph corrections. 42 pp. BENTLEY, Eric Addenda: June/July 1970 Page 2 Folder 4 2. 11 Peleus 11 A TIME TO LIVE . 1967 Typescript mimeo and typescript with holograph correc­ tions. 38 pp. Folder 5 3. Typescript setting copy. Ca. 104 pp. Folder 6 4. Galley proofs. Folder 6 5. Page proofs. Folder 7 6. Correspondence. 1966-1967. With Uta Hagen and Herbert c:,, Berghof. 6 TLS 4 ALS 4 CTL (by EB) 10 pages of notes on play: typescript and holograph 7. Cover for paperback edition of plays. BENTLEY, ERIC Addenda: September-December 1970 Box 8 I. THE GREAT PLAYWRIGHTS. Doubleday, 1970. Compiled and introduced by EB. Manuscript pages are either typescript, xerox of typescript, carbon typescript, reprints, br xerox of printed, with holograph notations and printer's marks. A) Volume I. (With chapters on "What is a Greek Tragedy?", "What is Shakespearean?", "What is Spanish Comedia?", "~at is Classical and French?", "What is German?"). Manuscript. 1) Preface and Aeschylus, Ca. 150 pp. (1/1). 2) Sophocles, Ca. 150 pp. (t/2). 3) Euripides, Ca. 50 pp. (113). Box 9 4) Shakespeare, Ca. 200 pp. (#4). 5) Ben Jonson, Ca. 100 pp. (1/5). Box 10 6) Lope de Vega, Ca. 100 pp. (#6). 7) Caldedm de la Barca, Ca. 100 pp. (117). 8) Moli~re, Ca. 130 pp. (1/8). Box 11 9) Racine, Ca. 100 pp. (f/9). 10) Heinrich van Kleist, Ca. 100 pp. (#10). B) Volume II. "What is Modern?". Manuscript. Box 11-12 1) Henrik Ibsen, Ca. 150 pp. (#11-12). Box 12 2) August Strindberg and Oscar Wilde, Ca. 250 pp. (#13). 3) Anton Chekhov, Ca. 100 pp. (#14). Box 13 4) Bernard Shaw, Ca. 250 pp. (t/15). 5) J.M.Synge, Ca. 75 pp. (t/16). Box 14 6) Luigi Pirandello, Ca. 250 pp. (#17-18). Box 14-15 7) Bertolt Brecht, Ca. 250 pp. (t/19-20). page 2 BENTLEY, ERIC Addenda: September-December 1970 C) Galley proofs. Boxes 15-17 1) Volume I. Ca. 20 partial sets of galleys, of which about half are corrected. Mostly of individual chapters. (#21-26). Boxes 18-20 2) Volume I. 3 sets of complete galley proofs. 1 is corrected. Boxes 21-23 3) Volume II. Ca. 25 partial sets of galleys, of which about half are corrected. Mostly of individual chapters. (#27-33). Box 24 4) Volume II. Complete galley proof. Corrected. II. "Commitments". 1965. "Two plays for One Evening". Mimeograph, Ca. 70 pp. (#34). III. Posters and adveritisng for "A Man's a Man", THE PLAYWRIGHT AS THINKER, "Commitments", etc. 6 items. (t/34) .· BENTLEY, ERIC Addenda: March 1971 Box 25 THE GREAT PLAYWRIGHTS edited by EB. Doubleday, 1970. Galleys checked by contributors of essays and translations, with their holograph corrections. BENTLEY, ERIC July 1971-January 1972 11 Box 25 1) "Antigone 66 • Play, c. 1966. Mimeograph with hologre.ph corrections, 50 pp. (Ill). 2) "Brecht and the Days of the Commune". Radio boradcast, November 11. 1971. Mimeograph, 6 pp. (#1). BENTLEY, ERIC page 3 Addenda: July, 1971-January, 1972 3) Printed advertising from Viking re: THIRTY YEARS OF TREASON, 2 pp. (f/1). 25 B OX 4) THIRTY YE&.~S OF TREASON. Viking, 1971. 26 Xerox copies of HUAC printed transcript with EB' s holograpl1 notations with some typescript and carbon typescript pages with EB's corrections, Ca. 1000 pp. (#2-6). BENTLEY, ERIC Addenda: April 1972 Manuscripts Box 27 1) BEFORE VIETNAM: The Investigation of Show Business by the Un-American Activities Committee, 1938-1958. Typescript and mounted tearsheets with holograph notations and cuts, dated October 1971, 199 pp. (t/1). 2) THE GOOD CATHOLIC. 1968. a) Mimeo, 132 pp. (t/2). Box 28 b) Titled ROARING ALL DAY LONG, 1955. Photocopy of typescript with holograph corrections, 160 pp. (#1). c) Titled ROARING ALL DAY LONG, 1967. Typescript with holograph corrections, 126 pp. (//2). 3) MOTHER COURAGE by Bertolt Brecht; adapted by Eric Bentley. a) Typescript mimeo with holograph notations and corrections, dated 1959, 85 pp. (if 3). b) Dated Autumn 1962. Carbon typescript with holograph corrections, 99 pp. (#4). c) Dated 1963. Mimeo with holograph corrections, 92 pp. (#5). BENTLEY, ERIC Addenda, September, 1972 Box 28. Manuscript Folder 6 ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN The Investigation of Show Business by the Un-American Activities Committee, 1947-1958. Harper Colophon Books, 1972. Typescript with halo. oorr., 192 p. BENTLEY, Eric Addenda: March 14, 1973-Sept. 7, 1973 Box 29: I. Manuscripts (2) A. THEATRE OF WAR, Viking Press, 1972. Folder #1. l.Setting copy with printers marks and notations, 628 p. Includes: typescript, xerox of typescript, carbon typescript, reprint or xerox of printed material. 2. 6 preliminary pages, 1st p. signed by EB. Box 30: B. "Drama as Social Criticism: Ibsen, Shaw, Brecht".