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Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Administrative Information
Description of Series
I. Works
II. Correspondence
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Bernard Kops:
A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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| Creator: | Kops, Bernard,
1926- |
| Title: | Bernard Kops
Papers
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| Dates: | 1954-2000 |
| Abstract: | The papers include drafts of
published and unpublished plays, stories, and poetry, as well as Kops's
autobiography
Shalom Bomb; scenes from my
life. Correspondence with fellow artists and letters to his wife are
also present. |
| Extent: | 10 boxes (4.2
linear feet) |
| Repository: | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
University of Texas at Austin |
This addition to the Bernard Kops collection at the Ransom
Center includes drafts of published and unpublished plays, stories, and poetry
as well as his autobiography
Shalom Bomb; scenes from my life.
Play titles include
The Boy Who Wouldn't Play Jesus,
Change for the Angel,
The Dream of Peter Mann,
Enter Solly Gold,
Falling in Love Again,
I Want to Go Home, and
Stray Cats and Empty Bottles.
Also included is correspondence with Lindsay Anderson, Michael Horovitz, Harold
Innocent, Warren Mitchell, Olga Rudge, Arnold Wesker and others, and Kops's
letters to his wife Erica.
Books received with the collection were transferred to the
Ransom Center Library.
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Availability:
Open for research
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Purchase (Reg. no. 14679)
Liz Murray, 2001
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I. Works
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 1 | | After You've
Gone, synopsis for stage play |
| 2-3 | | Audition
Piece, script and director's critique |
| 4 | | Barricades in West
Hampstead, poetry, setting copy |
| 5 | | The Boy Who Wouldn't
Play Jesus, play, disbound sheets of Cassell's, 1965, 2nd edition,
revised |
| 6 | | By the Waters of
Whitechapel, script |
| 7-9 | | Call in the
Night, script, drafts and notes |
| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 1-2 | | Call in the
Night, cont'd |
| 3-4 | | Cardboard
City, novel for teenagers |
| 5 | | Change for the
Angel, script |
| 6 | | The Dream of Peter
Mann, script,
1960 |
| 7 | | Dreams of Anne
Frank,On Margate
Sands,Call in the
Night, page proofs of plays |
| 8 | | East End
Tales, script,
1969 |
| Box | Folder |
| 3 | 1 | | East End
Tales and
Inner Circle,
scripts |
| 2 | | East End-West
End, London Saturday Night Broadcast,
1961 |
| 3 | | Enter Solly
Gold, script, first version |
| 4 | | Falling in Love
Again, radio script,
2000 |
| 5 | | The Ghost
Child, radio script,
1994 |
| 6-7 | | Golem, play,
drafts |
| Box | Folder |
| 4 | 1-2 | | Golem,
cont'd |
| 3-4 | | Grandchildren and
Other Poems, typescripts |
| 5-7 | | Houdini
Escapes, play, notes and drafts |
| Box | Folder |
| 5 | 1 | | I Want to Go
Home, opening of the 1964 play which became the novel
"Yes from No
Man's Land" |
| 2 | | In a Strange
Land, short television plays,
1972 |
| 3-6 | | The Jericho
Players with
Rogues and
Vagabonds, script,
1998 |
| 7 | | A Jewish
Wedding, BBC talk,
1960 |
| 8 | | Kafe
Kropotkin, script, drafts |
| Box | Folder |
| 6 | 1-2 | | Kafe
Kropotkin, cont'd |
| 3 | | Make-Up,
screenplay |
| 4-5 | | More Out Than
In and
On Margate
Sands, scripts |
| 6 | | Neither Your Honey
Nor Your Sting, outline of `saga' |
| 7 | | The Party of Peregrin
and Penelope Pig, unpublished story |
| 8 | | Risorgimento,
play notes,
1996 |
| 9 | | Sailing with
Homer, script,
1994 |
| | | Shalom
Bomb |
| Box | Folder |
| 6 | 10 | | | Outline |
| Box | Folder |
| 7 | 1 | | | Outline, cont'd |
| 2 | | | Various pages, changes,
cuts |
| 3 | | | Final page proofs |
| 4-5 | | | Final corrected proof |
| 6-7 | | Simon,
script |
| 8 | | Soho nights,
script |
| 9 | | Songs and Sorrows of
Mean Streets, scenario |
| 10 | | Space
Orpheus, opera, notes, scenarios, etc. |
| Box | Folder |
| 8 | 1 | | Stray Cats and Empty
Bottles, stage sketch |
| 2 | | Untitled playscript |
| 3 | | "Why the Geese
Shrieked" by I.B. Singer, dramatized by BK, 1976, BBC script |
| 4 | | Abandoned children's novel,
1985 |
| 5 | | Draft of play and other
drafts |
| 6 | | Draft of short story about actors and
various other drafts |
| 7 | | Handwritten notes |
| 8 | | Miscellaneous notes |
| 9 | | Notes for various abandoned
projects |
| Box | Folder |
| 9 | 1 | | Miscellaneous papers and abandoned
projects |
| 2 | | Unpublished, abandoned projects, and
notes |
| 3 | | Reviews and interviews |
| 4 | | Reviews and worksheets from
plays |
| 5 | | Printed material, programs, articles,
reviews |
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II. Correspondence
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| Box | Folder |
| 9 | 6 | | General |
| 7 | | BK to his wife, Erica,
1954-1995 |
| Box |
| 10 | | | Computer discs |
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