MUM00229
Finding Aid for the Beth Henley Small Manuscripts Collection
(MUM00229)
Finding Aid for the Beth Henley Small Manuscripts Collection
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Descriptive Summary |
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Administrative Information |
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Subject Terms |
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Biographical Note |
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Scope and Content Note |
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User Information |
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Related Material |
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Container List |
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Acquired from various sources
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded
by Kathryn Michaelis, October 2011.
Additions
Materials may be periodically added to this collection.
Subject Terms
Formats
Biographical Note
Playwright and screenwriter Beth Henley was born in Jackson, Miss. in 1952. Many of
her works are set in Mississippi and feature southern characters and themes. Perhaps
her best-known play is Crimes of the Heart, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. Crimes of the Heart also earned Henley a Tony award nomination, and was adapted as a film of the same
title in 1986. Her other works include The Wake of Jamey Foster (1983); The Miss Firecracker Contest (1985); The Debutante Ball (1991); Family Week (2000); Ridiculous Fraud (2006); and others.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains promotional materials and articles related to the work of
playwright and screenwriter Beth Henley.
User Information
Preferred Citation
Beth Henley Small Manuscripts Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams
Library, The
University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Beth Henley Small Manuscripts Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for,
or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,”
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
Beth Henley Collection (MUM00228), Archives and Special Collections
Container List
| Folder 1 | Pamphlet: “Millsaps Arts and Lecture Series Presents An Evening with Beth Henley and Lydy Becker Caldwell,” 29 March 1983 |
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| Folder 2 | Playbill: “New Stage Theatre presents Broadway’s Smash Hit ‘Crimes of the Heart’ by Beth Henley, Directed by William Partlan, June 1-18, 1983,” Jackson, Miss. Two copies. |
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| Folder 3 | Pamphlet: “Mississippi State University. University Honors Program Presents Beth Henley,” 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Folder 4 | Press release: New Stage Theatre. Re: Crimes of the Heart, 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Folder 5 | Studies in American Drama 1945-Present Vol. 3, 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Contains Laura Morrow’s “Orality and Identity in night, Mother and Crimes of the Heart,” pp. 23-39. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Folder 6 | Studies in American Drama 1945-Present Vol. 4, 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Contains Jean Gagen’s “Most resembling unlikeness, and most unlike resemblance: Beth Henley’s ‘Crimes of the Heart’ and Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’.” pp. 119-128. |
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