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Drama 8

MS. Spender 256

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Title

Drama 8

Shelfmark

MS. Spender 256

Summary

Notebook containing manuscript work on The Corporal (earlier titles: The Death of Freedom or the End of Freedom). 46 pages are devoted to the play, with a further 13 loose leaves now separated, dated Sep 1975. Reversed, the book contains a manuscript piece of fiction Der Unschuldige; an essay Literature Engagee (32 pages); and an essay on America (early 1975, 10 pages).

Date

1954, 1975

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Collection contents

Papers of Stephen Spender

Literary papers and art

Drama

Drama notebooks and unbound drafts

Drama 8

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