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Schöne Helena [promptbook]
Item Information
Creator
Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
Contributor
Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943
Date
1900s
Rights
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Collection
Max Reinhardt Promptbooks
Description
Typed manuscript, bound, no publishing information given. Markings appear throughout the promptbook in purple pen, pink pencil, blue pencil, black pen, and black pencil. Page numbers are out of order - appears not to be primary promptbook.
Act I of the play is interspersed with various additions, songs, choirs, typed noted pages and cuts to other scenes. Book appears to be a collection of typed notes rather than a promptbook for the play.
Supplement folder: Seven pages labelled “Vorspiel zur schönen Helena” (Prelude for Die schöne Helena), typed; Seven pages of extensive drawings and directions regarding stage settings at various points in play; Six pages labelled “following page 24 of Act One"; Three pages ofvarious typed dialogue with markings; Three pages ofvarious typed dialogue, labelled “Between scene act three": Two pages typed dialogue, labelled “Act Three”; Twenty-six pages labelled “German translation of the English outline;
Three pages labelled (in English) “Helena (Story and history)”. Possible aforementioned English outline. All text in English.
Supplement folder: Seven pages labelled “Vorspiel zur schönen Helena” (Prelude for Die schöne Helena), typed; Seven pages of extensive drawings and directions regarding stage settings at various points in play; Six pages labelled “following page 24 of Act One"; Three pages ofvarious typed dialogue with markings; Three pages ofvarious typed dialogue, labelled “Between scene act three": Two pages typed dialogue, labelled “Act Three”; Twenty-six pages labelled “German translation of the English outline;
Three pages labelled (in English) “Helena (Story and history)”. Possible aforementioned English outline. All text in English.
Dimensions
33.5cm x 21cm
Supplements: varying dimensions.
Production(s)
Not specified.
Notes
Located in Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections
PT2635.E548P75 v.80
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Who is Max Reinhardt? The celebrated Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt, recognized in America primarily for his elaborate productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Franz Werfel’s The Eternal Road, and Karl Vollmoeller’s The Miracle, was born in 1873 at Baden near Vienna, Austria and died in New York City in… More
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Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897, “Schöne Helena [promptbook],” Digital Collections, accessed May 21, 2024, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1651.
