David Kranes papers, 1958-2011
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Kranes, David
- Title
- David Kranes papers
- Dates
- 1958-2011 (inclusive)19582011
- Quantity
- 14.5 linear feet
- Collection Number
- ACCN 2450
- Summary
- The David Kranes papers (1958-2011) contain the plays, short stories, book manuscripts and teaching files. Kranes is a nationally recognized Utah writer, primarily writing plays and short fiction.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
David Kranes is a nationally recognized Utah writer, primarily writing plays and short fiction. He received his Doctor of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1971, and began teaching in the English department at the University of Utah the same year. He served as the acting director of the Creative Writing program from 1992-1995, and again in 1997-1998. Dr. Kranes also served for fourteen years as Artistic Director of the Sundance Playwrights’ Lab.
Content Description
The David Kranes papers (1958-2011) contain the plays, short stories, book manuscripts and teaching files of David Kranes.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
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Play Manuscripts, A- Blu
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Description: 1101 and 1102Container: Box 1, Folder 1
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Description: Anthem, National High School InstituteDates: 1998Container: Box 1, Folder 2
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Description: AudienceContainer: Box 1, Folder 3
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Description: Beautiful Dreamer, Script and NotesDates: 1998-2001Container: Box 1, Folder 4-5
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Description: The Bear GardenDates: 1986Container: Box 1, Folder 6-7
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Description: Blind LoveContainer: Box 1, Folder 8
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Description: Blue CelloContainer: Box 1, Folder 9
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Play Manuscripts, Bra- Fro
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Description: Brain Coral- Impulse, Wordbridge Playwright's LaboratoryDates: 2003Container: Box 2, Folder 1
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Description: Brain ImpulseContainer: Box 2, Folder 2
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Description: CantrellContainer: Box 2, Folder 3
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Description: Catch and ReleaseContainer: Box 2, Folder 4
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Description: ChangeContainer: Box 2, Folder 5
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Description: Compliments of the HouseContainer: Box 2, Folder 6
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Description: Country and Eastern, Two One-Act PlaysContainer: Box 2, Folder 7
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Description: CriminalsContainer: Box 2, Folder 8
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Description: FugueContainer: Box 2, Folder 9
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Description: From Here...Container: Box 2, Folder 10-11
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Play Manuscripts, Fro- In
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Description: From Here..., One-ActContainer: Box 3, Folder 1
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Description: Future TenseContainer: Box 3, Folder 2
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Description: Getting ThereContainer: Box 3, Folder 3
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Description: Going InContainer: Box 3, Folder 4
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Description: HorayContainer: Box 3, Folder 5
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Description: House, Bridge, Foundation, GateDates: 1993Container: Box 3, Folder 6-7
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Description: I'm NobodyContainer: Box 3, Folder 8
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Description: In Development and Keat's GhostContainer: Box 3, Folder 9
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Description: In the Valentine LoungeDates: 1986-1997Container: Box 3, Folder 10-11
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Play Manuscripts, Inf-Pac
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Description: InfrastructuresContainer: Box 4, Folder 1
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Description: Keat's GhostContainer: Box 4, Folder 2
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Description: Life on the MoonContainer: Box 4, Folder 3
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Description: Loss of Appetite, Script and NotesDates: 2000-2004Container: Box 4, Folder 4-5
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Description: Making ActionContainer: Box 4, Folder 6
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Description: MontanaContainer: Box 4, Folder 7
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Description: MoonbirdsContainer: Box 4, Folder 8
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Description: The New KidDates: 1995-1997Container: Box 4, Folder 9-10
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Description: The Norman ShowContainer: Box 4, Folder 11
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Description: Orpheus Lex: a librettoDates: 1990-1991Container: Box 4, Folder 12-13
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Description: Paco Latto and the Anchor WomanContainer: Box 4, Folder 14
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Play Manuscripts, Pla-Win
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Description: Plays to FilmsContainer: Box 5, Folder 1
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Description: Private Space with PrivilegesContainer: Box 5, Folder 2
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Description: The Salmon RunContainer: Box 5, Folder 3-4
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Description: The Service SistersContainer: Box 5, Folder 5
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Description: ShootersContainer: Box 5, Folder 6
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Description: Things, First NotesContainer: Box 5, Folder 7
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Description: Tucker, With NotesContainer: Box 5, Folder 8
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Description: Winter of the DeerContainer: Box 5, Folder 9-10
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Play Manuscripts, Whi-Wor
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Description: WhitespaceContainer: Box 6, Folder 1
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Description: White Sands, New MexicoContainer: Box 6, Folder 2-3
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Description: Words and MusicContainer: Box 6, Folder 4
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Short Fiction
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Description: "Between Projects"Container: Box 7, Folder 1
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Description: "Blind Relief"Container: Box 7, Folder 2
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Description: "The Blue Motel"Container: Box 7, Folder 3
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Description: "The Burning Lake"Container: Box 7, Folder 4
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Description: "Call Waiting"Container: Box 7, Folder 5
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Description: "Choosing to Believe"Container: Box 7, Folder 6
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Description: "Douglas"Container: Box 7, Folder 7
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Description: "Entrapment"Container: Box 7, Folder 8
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Description: "The Fish Magician"Container: Box 7, Folder 9
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Description: "The Game of Touch"Dates: 1974Container: Box 7, Folder 10
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Description: "The Gift"Container: Box 7, Folder 11
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Description: "Idaho"Container: Box 7, Folder 12
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Description: "Loveblind"Container: Box 7, Folder 13
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Description: "Making the Ghost Dance"Container: Box 7, Folder 14
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Description: "The Man Who Might Have Been My Father"Container: Box 7, Folder 15
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Description: 'Melissa Curtain"Container: Box 7, Folder 16
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Description: "My Family Driving through the Night"Container: Box 7, Folder 17
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Description: "Near Her"Container: Box 7, Folder 18
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Description: "Phantom of the Phantom"Container: Box 7, Folder 19
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Description: "Pick up and Delivery"Container: Box 7, Folder 20
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Description: "Return Engagement"Container: Box 7, Folder 21
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Description: "Self Abuse"Container: Box 7, Folder 22
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Description: "Separation", CritiquesContainer: Box 7, Folder 23
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Description: 'Sheila: a Song"Container: Box 7, Folder 24
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Description: "Something About the Nest"Container: Box 7, Folder 25
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Description: "Street"Container: Box 7, Folder 26
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Description: "Two-Person Show"Container: Box 7, Folder 27-28
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Description: "Wanting Not to Lurk"Container: Box 7, Folder 29
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Description: "Weight Loss"Container: Box 7, Folder 30-31
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Description: "What Happened to Lincoln"Container: Box 7, Folder 32
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Description: "Where I Am, Where I've Been"Container: Box 7, Folder 33
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Research Files, "Space Dramaturgy"
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Description: DeLillo's Libra and HistoricityContainer: Box 8, Folder 1
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Description: Dramatic PhotosDates: 2001Container: Box 8, Folder 2
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Description: DramaturgyContainer: Box 8, Folder 3
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Description: Dramaturgy: Collecting CultureContainer: Box 8, Folder 4
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Description: The Dramaturg's Legal RightsDates: 1997Container: Box 8, Folder 5
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Description: Dramaturgy: Postmodernism/Pop CultureContainer: Box 8, Folder 6
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Description: Dramaturgy: SpectatorshipContainer: Box 8, Folder 7
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Description: Sacred SpaceContainer: Box 8, Folder 8
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Description: Space, Lecture 1Container: Box 8, Folder 9
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Description: Space: The Church and Spatial FormContainer: Box 8, Folder 10
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Description: Space: Current WeekContainer: Box 8, Folder 11
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Description: Space: The GardenContainer: Box 8, Folder 12
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Description: Space ImagesContainer: Box 8, Folder 13
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Description: Space: King LearContainer: Box 8, Folder 14
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Book Material, "The Dramatic Moment"
Folders 1-8 contain research materials for the unpublished book, "The Dramatic Moment."
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Description: "The Dramatic Moment", ContractsDates: 1992-1993Container: Box 9, Folder 1
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Description: Cyndi Totten, "Masks"Container: Box 9, Folder 2
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Description: Masks/ PuppetsContainer: Box 9, Folder 3
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Description: PlayContainer: Box 9, Folder 4
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Description: Play Writing TextContainer: Box 9, Folder 5
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Description: Theatre: PlaywritingContainer: Box 9, Folder 6
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Description: Theatre of SportsContainer: Box 9, Folder 7
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Description: What a Playwright Wants from DevelopmentContainer: Box 9, Folder 8
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Description: Chapter OneContainer: Box 9, Folder 9
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Description: Chapter Three, ActionContainer: Box 9, Folder 10
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Description: Chapter Four, ConflictsContainer: Box 9, Folder 11
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Description: Chapter Five, MasksContainer: Box 9, Folder 12
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Description: Chapter Six, InstabilityContainer: Box 9, Folder 13
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Description: Chapter Seven, Shifting PowerContainer: Box 9, Folder 14
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Description: Chapter Nine, Dances With DialogueContainer: Box 9, Folder 15
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"American Drama" Lecture Notes, Playwrights
Boxes 10 and 11 contain the lecture notes and research materials for a course Dr. Kranes taught for several years on American Drama.
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Description: Edward AlbeeContainer: Box 10, Folder 1
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Description: Gard/MachinContainer: Box 10, Folder 2
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Description: John GuareContainer: Box 10, Folder 3
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Description: Israel HorowitzContainer: Box 10, Folder 4
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Description: Tina HoweContainer: Box 10, Folder 5
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Description: Preston JonesContainer: Box 10, Folder 6
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Description: Marsha NormanContainer: Box 10, Folder 7
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Description: David MametContainer: Box 10, Folder 8
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Description: Arthur MillerContainer: Box 10, Folder 9
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Description: Eugene O'NeillContainer: Box 10, Folder 10-11
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Description: David RabeContainer: Box 10, Folder 12
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Description: Michael WellerContainer: Box 10, Folder 13
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Description: Thorton WilderContainer: Box 10, Folder 14
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Description: Tennesse WilliamsContainer: Box 10, Folder 15
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"American Drama" Lecture Notes, Subject Files
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Description: 1930s TheatreContainer: Box 11, Folder 1-2
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Description: American Drama ArticlesContainer: Box 11, Folder 3
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Description: American Drama NewslettersDates: 1995-1997Container: Box 11, Folder 4
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Description: The American DreamContainer: Box 11, Folder 5
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Description: American EdenContainer: Box 11, Folder 6
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Description: The American MusicalContainer: Box 11, Folder 7
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Description: American MemoryContainer: Box 11, Folder 8
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Description: American "Soul"Container: Box 11, Folder 9
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Description: American Theatre HistoryContainer: Box 11, Folder 10
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Description: The Archives of EdenContainer: Box 11, Folder 11
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Description: Broad QuestionsContainer: Box 11, Folder 12
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Description: Broadway: ExtravaganzasContainer: Box 11, Folder 13
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Description: Contemporary American Women PlaywrightsContainer: Box 11, Folder 14
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Description: "Home" in American DramaContainer: Box 11, Folder 15
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Description: Hairy ApeContainer: Box 11, Folder 16
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Description: Iceman SceneContainer: Box 11, Folder 17
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Description: Intro and QuestionsContainer: Box 11, Folder 18
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Description: Piano LessonContainer: Box 11, Folder 19
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Description: Pre-O'Neill HistoryContainer: Box 11, Folder 20
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Description: Naturalism/ExpressionismContainer: Box 11, Folder 21
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Description: William SaroyanContainer: Box 11, Folder 22
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Subject Files
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Description: Action, Attempting To Do, Lecture NotesContainer: Box 12, Folder 1
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Description: American Dramaturgy, Art BorrecaContainer: Box 12, Folder 2
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Description: CharacterizationDates: 1993Container: Box 12, Folder 3
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Description: Wendell Berry, "Community in 17 Simple Steps"Container: Box 12, Folder 4
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Description: Creating a Playwriting ProgramContainer: Box 12, Folder 5
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Description: Emory International Playwriting CenterContainer: Box 12, Folder 6
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Description: Gentlemen Callers WorkshopContainer: Box 12, Folder 7
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Description: Godat, Cedar CityDates: 1989Container: Box 12, Folder 8
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Description: Graduate PlaywritingDates: 1998Container: Box 12, Folder 9
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Description: Images, PlaywritingContainer: Box 12, Folder 10
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Description: JourneysContainer: Box 12, Folder 11
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Description: Romulus LinneyContainer: Box 12, Folder 12
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Description: Music and RhythmContainer: Box 12, Folder 13
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Description: Mystery: Dramatic QuestionContainer: Box 12, Folder 14
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Description: One-Act Play Revision WorkshopContainer: Box 12, Folder 15
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Description: Play FormatContainer: Box 12, Folder 16
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Description: Playwriting WorkshopDates: 1993Container: Box 12, Folder 17-18
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Description: Plot: Frietao's TriangleContainer: Box 12, Folder 19
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Description: Punch and JudyContainer: Box 12, Folder 20
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Description: Religious Questions: PlaysContainer: Box 12, Folder 21
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Description: John Luther Adams, Resonance of PlaceContainer: Box 12, Folder 22
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Description: Scene Writing WorkshopContainer: Box 13, Folder 1
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Description: Script QuestionsContainer: Box 13, Folder 2
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Description: Seaside WorkshopContainer: Box 13, Folder 3
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Description: "Soap" ScriptsDates: 1995Container: Box 13, Folder 4
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Description: Theater MaterialsDates: 1995-1996Container: Box 13, Folder 5
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Description: Theater ArticlesDates: 2000Container: Box 13, Folder 6
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Description: Theater CorrespondenceDates: 1996Container: Box 13, Folder 7
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Description: Thresholds, the DoorContainer: Box 13, Folder 8
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Books with Notations
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Description: Ingram Bywater, Aristotle on the Art of PoetryContainer: Box 14, Folder 1
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Description: Edwidge Danticat, The Dew BreakerContainer: Box 14, Folder 2
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Description: George Johnson, In the Palaces of MemoryContainer: Box 14, Folder 3
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Description: Sam Keen, Your Mythic JourneyContainer: Box 14, Folder 4
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Description: Peter Sandiford, Educational PsychologyContainer: Box 14, Folder 5
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Description: Removed ItemsContainer: Box 14, Folder 6
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Description: EphemeraContainer: Box 14, Folder 7
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Oversize
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Description: ScrapbookDates: 1958-2011Container: Box 15
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General Materials
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Description: The Portable Arthur Miller with notations by KraneDates: 1971Container: Box 16, Folder 1
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Description: CertificateDates: 1986Container: Box 16, Folder 2
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Description: Ephemeral Materials
The items in this folder were retrieved from books collected by Kranes.
Dates: 1960-2009Container: Box 16, Folder 3
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Books with Notations
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Description: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance and Tom Dulack, IncommunicadoContainer: Box 17, Folder 1
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Description: T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party and Eugene O'Neil, Long Days Journey into Night
The The Cocktail Party contains autographs of all the actors, along with a playbill, for a 1950 performace.
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Description: Eric Overmyer, On the Verge and Harold Pinter, Old TimesContainer: Box 17, Folder 3
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Description: Thornton Wilder, Our Town and Landford Wilson, Fifth of July and The Hot L BaltimoreContainer: Box 17, Folder 4
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Description: Compilations
The folder consists of Four Great Plays by Chekhov, Masterpieces of the Modern Italian Theatre, Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre, and Six Great Modern Plays.
Container: Box 17, Folder 5
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Oversize Mapcase Materials
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Description: Posters and Set Rendering
This folder includes a poster for the reading of Courting Disaster, a poster for SLAC Production which included Kranes' play "Catch and Release," a plaque of "Multi-Media Evening," and a set rendering by Ron Crosby for the play Fall Holiday.
Dates: 1968; 2002Container: Folder 1
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Authors, American--Utah
- Literature
Personal Names
- Kranes, David--Archives
Form or Genre Terms
- Plays
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