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J. L. Styan papers
Special Collections and Archives
J. L. Styan papers
Special Collections and Archives
J. L. Styan papers
- Repository: Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
- Title: J. L. Styan papers
- Inclusive Date(s): 1841-2005
- Bulk Date(s): 1930-2000
- Author: Finding aid prepared by Edith Serkownek
- Creation: Finding aid encoded by Edith Serkownek using the OhioLINK EAD Application in 2012
- Origination: Styan, J. L.
- Extent: 10.66 cubic feet (14 boxes= 8 record storage boxes, 4 half size records storage boxes and 2 document cases)
- Physical Location: 10th floor
- Finding Aid Identifier: OhKeUSC0139
- Abstract: This collection contains documents relating to the family history, education, career and writings of academic theater historian and author J. L. Styan. The bulk of the collection dates from 1930 to 2000. These documents include genealogical and family documents, personal and professional writings, teaching notes, and research.
- Revision(s):
- November 2022 - Updated by Cara Gilgenbach
- Language(s): The records are in English
Biography of J. L. Styan
Teacher, director, author and theater historian, John Louis Styan was born July 6, 1923 in London, England. He attended the University of London where he received an Intermediate BA in Greek, Latin, History and English in 1941. Between 1941 and 1945 Styan served as a lieutenant in the Army's Royal Artillery. He was later graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA (1947) and an MA (1949) in English.
Styan began teaching at Falmouth Grammar School in Cornwall and later served as a staff tutor in the Department of Adult Education at the University of Hull in Yorkshire. Styan moved to the United States to teach beginning in 1963. While in the U.S. he held academic appointments in English at the University of Michigan (1965-1974), The University of Pittsburgh (1974-1977) and Northwestern University (1977-1988). In addition to permanent academic posts he also served as a Visiting Professor or Special Lecturer at a number of institutions throughout his career including the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa, Northwestern University and Columbia University. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1978) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983) and also served as the North American Chairman of the Academic Council of the Shakespeare Globe Centre.
Styan authored a number of books on performance and theatrical history including The Elements of Drama (1960), The Dramatic Experience (1965), The Challenge of the Theatre (1972), Modern Drama in Theory and Practice (1981), and The English Stage (1996). Styan also wrote numerous scholarly articles and reviews.
Styan retired to England in 1988. He was married to Constance Roberts in 1945, and they had four children. Styan died July 1, 2002.
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents relating to the family history, education, career, and writings of British academic theater historian and author J. L. Styan. The bulk of the collection dates from 1930 to 2000. These documents include genealogical and family documents relating to Styan's own education as well as his military service during World War II. This collection contains information related to Styan's professional writings including related correspondence, book contracts and published articles, as well as Styan's teaching notebooks and theater research files.
Statement of Arrangement
The J. L. Styan papers are divided into series as follows:
- Series 1: Personal Files
- Series 2: Professional Files
- Subseries 2A: Professional Files: Teaching Positions
- Subseries 2B: Professional Files: Conferences, Lectures and Guest Faculty Positions
- Subseries 2C: Professional Files: Organizations
- Subseries 2D: Professional Files: Teaching Materials
- Series: 3: Writings
- Subseries 3A: Writings: Articles and Reviews
- Subseries 3B: Writings: Books
- Subseries 3C: Writings: Plays, Poems and Sketches
- Series 4: Secondary Sources and Research Files
Separated Material
Please note that books from the personal library of J. L. Styan have been catalogued in KentLINK and are housed in the LC-classified book collection in Special Collections and Archives.
Restrictions on Access
One folder of personal information has been restricted by Special Collections and Archives.
Restrictions on Use
Kent State University does not own copyright to the works in this collection. Please contact Special Collections and Archives for more information.
Preferred Citation
J. L. Styan papers. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Acquisition Information
J. L. Styan donated his papers to Kent State University's Special Collections and Archives in June of 1996. A small amount of additional material was added at a later date. In 2022, Styan's daughter Tina Styan donated some additional publications, books, and a complete Cambridge Shakespeare set to the collection.
Subject Headings
The following subjects are found in this collection:
- Subjects:
- Styan, J. L. -- Archives.
- Drama -- Study and teaching.
- Drama -- History and criticism.
- Theater -- Great Britain -- History.
- Theater -- History.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
- Functions:
- College teaching.
- Authorship.
- Occupations:
- College teachers.
- Authors.
- Material Types:
- Personal papers.
- Correspondence.
- Instructional materials.
- Notebooks.
- Photographs.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Personal Files, 1841-1997
- Scope and Content
- This series contains material relating to Styan's family, genealogy, youth, military service during World War II and education. Folders including family documents, newspaper clippings, correspondence, school programs, coursework, scrapbook pages and other related items.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized by subject and roughly chronologically.
- Box 1 / Folder 1
- Personal: Restricted biographical information, Undated
- Restrictions on Access
- This folder has been RESTRICTED and may only be viewed with permission of Special Collections and Archives.
- Box 1 / Folder 2
- Personal: Biographical information including vita, 1989, 1991 and undated
- Box 1 / Folder 3
- Personal: Correspondence, 1953-1996
- Box 1 / Folder 4
- Personal: Ephemera including newspaper clippings, 1980, 1990, 1993 and undated
- Box 1 / Folder 5
- Personal: Photographs, 1950-1988
- Box 1 / Folder 6
- Genealogy: "Ye Styan Chronicles", 1977, 1978, 1995 and undated
- Box 1 / Folder 7
- Genealogy: "Ye Styan Chronicles" index and family tree, 1997
- Box 1 / Folder 8
- Family history: Documents, 19th and 20th centuries
- Box 1 / Folder 9
- Family history, mother and father: Documents, 19th and 20th centuries
- Box 1 / Folder 10
- Army service including scrapbook pages, newspaper clippings and correspondence, 1939-1945
- Box 1 / Folder 11
- Army service including scrapbook pages, newspaper clippings and correspondence, 1939-1945
- Box 1 / Folder 12
- Education including school and university reports, programs and correspondence, 1930s
- Box 1 / Folder 13
- Education including school and university reports, programs and correspondence, 1940s
- Box 1 / Folder 14
- Education including school and university reports, programs and correspondence, 1940s
- Box 1 / Folder 15
- Education including school and university reports, programs and correspondence, 1940s
Series 2: Professional Files, 1947-1999
Subseries 2A: Professional Files: Teaching Positions, 1947-1989
- Scope and Content
- Material includes applications, correspondence, newspaper clippings and institution-related ephemera.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized chronologically.
- Box 2 / Folder 1
- Teaching positions: Applications, letters of recommendation for teaching positions and correspondence, 1947-1950
- Box 2 / Folder 2
- Teaching positions: Falmouth Grammar School, 1949-1950
- Box 2 / Folder 3
- Teaching positions: University College of Hull, 1950-1966
- Box 2 / Folder 4
- Teaching positions: University College of Hull, 1950-1966
- Box 2 / Folder 5
- Teaching positions: University of Michigan, 1963-1974
- Box 2 / Folder 6
- Teaching positions: University of Michigan, 1963-1974
- Box 2 / Folder 7
- Teaching positions: University of Michigan, 1963-1974
- Box 2 / Folder 8
- Teaching positions: University of Michigan, 1963-1974
- Box 2 / Folder 9
- Teaching positions: University of Michigan, 1963-1974
- Box 2 / Folder 10
- Teaching positions: University of Pittsburgh, 1973-1977
- Box 2 / Folder 11
- Teaching positions: University of Pittsburgh, 1973-1977
- Box 2 / Folder 12
- Teaching positions: Northwestern University, 1976-1989
- Box 2 / Folder 13
- Teaching positions: Northwestern University, 1976-1989
- Box 2 / Folder 14
- Teaching positions: Northwestern University, 1976-1989
Subseries 2B: Professional Files: Conferences, Lectures and Guest Faculty Positions, 1975-1999
- Scope and Content
- Material includes correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings and ephemera.
- Arrangement
- Material organized alphabetically by the name of the sponsoring organization.
- Box 3 / Folder 1
- Professional events: Columbia University, visiting professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1982-1983
- Box 3 / Folder 2
- Professional events: Hendrix College, guest lecturer, 1981
- Box 3 / Folder 3
- Professional events: Kent State University, Robert Lewis Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Theater Research, 1994-1995
- Scope and Content
- Includes audio cassette recording (2 tapes) of this event.
- Box 3 / Folder 4
- Professional events: Kingston Polytechnic, UK, guest lecturer, 1991
- Box 3 / Folder 5
- Professional events: Missouri Philological Association, Annual Meeting, presenter, 1988
- Box 3 / Folder 6
- Professional events: Mount Holyoke, guest lecturer, 1985
- Box 3 / Folder 7
- Professional events: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Shakespeare, The Globe and the World exhibit, 1980
- Box 3 / Folder 8
- Professional events: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1986-1987
- Box 3 / Folder 9
- Professional events: South Africa theater trip, 1986
- Box 3 / Folder 10
- Professional events: University of Arkansas, Hamlet Symposium, 1987
- Box 3 / Folder 11
- Professional events: University of Birmingham, The Shakespeare Institute, 1990
- Box 3 / Folder 12
- Professional events: University of Kansas, visiting professor, lecturer and additional material, 1975-1988
- Box 3 / Folder 13
- Professional events: University of Maryland, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, 1986-1988
- Box 3 / Folder 14
- Professional events: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, guest lecturer, 1988
- Box 3 / Folder 15
- ProfessionaleEvents: University of Sydney, Australia, guest lecturer, 1983
- Box 3 / Folder 16
- Professional events: University of Western Ontario, Sign, Signe, Spectacle International Symposium, 1983
- Box 3 / Folder 17
- Professional events: A World Shakespeare Congress, Shakespeare, a Man of the Theatre, 1981
- Box 3 / Folder 18
- Professional events: Miscellaneous conferences, lectures and visits, 1980s-1990s
Subseries 2C: Professional Files: Organizations, 1972-1999
- Scope and Content
- Material includes correspondence, organizational publications and ephemera and newspaper clippings.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized alphabetically by name of the organization.
- Box 4 / Folder 1
- Professional organizations: General correspondence, 1980s-1990s
- Box 4 / Folder 2
- Professional organizations: British Theater Association, 1987-1999
- Box 4 / Folder 3
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 1989 and 1991
- Box 4 / Folder 4
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, correspondence and publications, 1972-1979
- Box 4 / Folder 5
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, correspondence and publications, 1980-1989
- Box 4 / Folder 6
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, correspondence and publications, 1990s
- Box 4 / Folder 7
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, Globe 1000 Club, 1991-1995
- Box 4 / Folder 8
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, International conferences, Shakespeare's Globe Reborn, 1984
- Box 4 / Folder 9
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, International Shakespeare Week, 1987
- Box 4 / Folder 10
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, The Rose and Globe theatres, 1989-1993
- Box 4 / Folder 11
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, Southwark Globe: Newsletter of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, Miscellaneous issues 1984-1987 and 1994
- Box 4 / Folder 12
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, Southwark Globe plans, 1981-1990
- Box 4 / Folder 13
- Professional organizations: Shakespeare Globe Center, Sam Wanamaker-related, 1990-1994
- Box 4 / Folder 14
- Professional organizations: Studies in English Literature journal, 1980s-1990s
Subseries 2D: Professional Files: Teaching Materials, Undated
- Scope and Content
- Syllabi, handouts and lecture notes created by Styan in teaching his academic English and theater courses. Material includes notes as well as newspaper clippings, articles and ephemera.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized according to Styan's own numbering system and files and notebook names have been retained in this finding aid.
- Processing Information
- The majority of Styan's course notes are housed in mini-binders, which have been preserved in their original format.
- Box 5 / Folder 1
- Teaching binder: Playhouse and staging, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 2
- Teaching binder: Practical production, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 3
- Teaching binder: Play writing, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 4
- Teaching binder: Dramatic analysis, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 5
- Teaching binder: Dramatic genres, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 6
- Teaching binder: Dramatic styles and conventions, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 7
- Teaching binder: Greek theatre, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 8
- Teaching binder: Medieval theatre, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 9
- Teaching binder: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Undated
- Box 5 / Folder 10
- Teaching binder: Shakespeare Stage Craft, undated
- Box 6 / Folder 1
- Teaching binder: Shakespeare quotes, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 2
- Teaching binder: Shakespeare tragedy, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 3
- Teaching binder: Shakespeare history, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 4
- Teaching binder: Shakespeare comedy, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 5
- Teaching binder: Italian and French theatre, 16th-18th century, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 6
- Teaching binder: Restoration, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 7
- Teaching binder: Ibsen, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 8
- Teaching binder: Chekhov, Undated
- Box 6 / Folder 9
- Teaching binder: Strindberg to Brecht, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 1
- Teaching binder: Shaw and Irish theatre, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 2
- Teaching binder: Modern verse drama, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 3
- Teaching binder: English post-war drama, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 4
- Teaching binder: French post-war drama, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 5
- Teaching binder: Film, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 6
- Teaching binder: Radio and TV, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 7
- Teaching binder: Writing, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 8
- Teaching binder: Reading public, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 9
- Teaching binder: On poetry, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 10
- Teaching binder: On literature, Undated
- Box 7 / Folder 11
- Teaching binder: On fiction, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 1
- Teaching binder: 17th-century literature, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 2
- Teaching binder: 18th-century literature, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 3
- Teaching binder: 19th-century literature, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 4
- Teaching binder: 19th-century fiction, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 5
- Teaching binder: 20th-century poetry, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 6
- Teaching binder: 20th-century fiction, British, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 7
- Teaching binder: 20th-century fiction, European and American, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 8
- Teaching binder: Education, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 9
- Teaching binder: School, Undated
- Box 8 / Folder 10
- Teaching binder: Adult education, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 1
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Drama, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 2
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Drama, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 3
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Drama, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 4
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Drama, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 5
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Restoration comedy handouts, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 6
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Restoration comedy notes, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 7
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Restoration comedy notes, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 8
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Restoration comedy notes, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 9
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Shakespeare, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 10
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Theory and Modern drama, Undated
- Box 9 / Folder 11
- Teaching syllabi, notes and handouts: Theory and Modern drama, Undated
Series 3: Writings, 1941-2000
Subseries 4A: Writings: Articles and Reviews, 1953-2000
- Scope and Content
- Material includes correspondence with publishers, transcripts and articles.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized chronologically.
- Box 10 / Folder 1
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Chekhov the dramatist." Tutors' Bulletin of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education. 89/90: 43-44., January-March, 1953
- Box 10 / Folder 2
- Styan, J.L. "Practical literature." Tutors' Bulletin of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education. 92: 15-18., Autumn 1953
- Box 10 / Folder 3
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Ibsen's dramatic method." Tutors' Bulletin of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education. 92: 27., Autumn 1953
- Box 10 / Folder 4
- Styan, J.L. "Too much drama?." The Highway. 48: 72-76., January 1957
- Box 10 / Folder 5
- Styan, J.L. "Postmortem: The virtues of discussion." ECA News Sheet: 1-3., April 1959
- Box 10 / Folder 6
- Styan, J.L. "Drama as an art," typed transcript with accompanying correspondence, November 1959
- Box 10 / Folder 7
- Styan, J.L. "The actor at the foot of Shakespeare." Shakespeare Survey. 12: 56-63., 1959
- Box 10 / Folder 8
- Styan, J.L. "Architecture of new theatres." Municipal Review. XXXII.373: 32 and 58., January 1961
- Box 10 / Folder 9
- Styan, J.L. "Television and the tutor." Tutors' Bulletin of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education. XXXIII.6: 12-17., March 1961
- Box 10 / Folder 10
- Levy, J. "Styanovy Prvky Dramatu." Divaldlo. 2: 59-65 (Article in Czech regarding The Elements of Drama), February 1962
- Box 10 / Folder 11
- Styan, J.L. "Pilkington and after." Tutors' Bulletin of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education. XXXV.3: 126-133., September 1962
- Box 10 / Folder 12
- Styan, J.L. "Beckett Ionesco A Ti Druzi." Divaldlo. 10: 22-27. (Article in Czech), December 1963
- Box 10 / Folder 13
- Styan, J.L. "Tutors and television." Tutors' Bulletin of the Association of Tutors in Adult Education. XXXVI.6: 320-324., March 1964
- Box 10 / Folder 14
- Styan, J.L. "Cruel to whom?." Plays and Players: 116., March 1964
- Box 10 / Folder 15
- Styan, J.L. "In search of Elizabethan heritage." Plays and Players: 8., March 1964
- Box 10 / Folder 16
- Styan, J.L. "At the Aldwych." [Plays and Players]: 29., September 1964
- Box 10 / Folder 17
- Styan, J.L. "Perennial Shakespeare." R.C.H. Magazine: 28-38., December 1964
- Box 10 / Folder 18
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The Lonely Tower," typed transcript for W.E.A. News with accompanying correspondence, June 1965
- Box 10 / Folder 19
- Styan, J.L. "Comment on Criticism West of Suez," typed transcript with accompanying correspondence, July 1965
- Box 10 / Folder 20
- Styan, J.L. "The published play after 1956 I." British Book News. 300: 521-525., August 1965
- Box 10 / Folder 21
- Styan, J.L. "The published play after 1956 II." British Book News. 301: 601-605., September 1965
- Box 10 / Folder 22
- Styan, J.L. "Drama as a discipline in the adult group." British Book News. XXXVIII: 145-149., September 1965
- Box 10 / Folder 23
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Pinter on and off the page." CEA Critic.: 7., January 1968
- Box 10 / Folder 24
- Styan, J.L. "No play is an island." CEA Critic. XXX.7: 10-11., April 1968
- Box 10 / Folder 25
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The Lulu plays." Michigan Quarterly Review. VII.2: 146-148., April 1968
- Box 10 / Folder 26
- Styan, J.L. "Drama and the sensorium." Speech and Drama. 17.2: Offprint., Spring 1968
- Box 10 / Folder 27
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The Christan tradition in modern British verse drama." Michigan Quarterly Review. VII.4: 289-291., October 1968
- Box 10 / Folder 28
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The dramatist and the received idea." Modern Language Quarterly. XXIX.4: 483-486., December 1968
- Box 10 / Folder 29
- Styan, J.L. "The play as a complex event." Genre: 38-54., 1968
- Box 10 / Folder 30
- Styan, J.L. "The concept of "good theatre"." Educational Theatre Journal. XXI.4: 378-385., December 1969
- Box 10 / Folder 31
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Macbetth and the players." Educational Theatre Journal. XXI.4: 459-461., December 1969
- Box 10 / Folder 32
- Styan, J.L.. "Audience manipulation in The playboy of the Western world." Twentieth century interpretations of The playboy of the Western World, a collection of critical essays. Ed. Thomas R. Whitaker. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. 111-116., 1969
- Box 10 / Folder 33
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The fool and his scepter: A study in clowns and jesters and their audience." Modern Language Quarterly. 31.2: 245-248., June 1970
- Box 10 / Folder 34
- Styan, J.L. "The idea of a definitive production: Chekhov in and out of period." Comparative Drama. IV.3: 177-196., Fall 1970
- Box 10 / Folder 35
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Myth and the modern playgoer." CEA Critic. XXXIII.1: 32-34., November 1970
- Box 10 / Folder 36
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The idiom of drama." Michigan Quarterly Review. X.3: 219-221., Summer 1971
- Box 10 / Folder 37
- Styan, J.L. "The delicate balance: Audience ambibalence in the comdey of Shakespeare and Chekhov." Costerus: Essays in English and American Language and Literature. 2: 159-184., 1971
- Box 10 / Folder 38
- Styan, J.L. "Pinter: Penny plain or tuppenny colored." CEA Critic. XXXIV.2: 40., January 1972
- Box 10 / Folder 39
- Styan, J.L. "Goldsmith's comic skills." Costerus: Essays in English and American Language and Literature. 9: 195-217., December 1973
- Box 10 / Folder 40
- Styan, J.L. "Direct method Shakespeare." Shakespeare Quarterly. XXV.2: 198-200., Spring 1974
- Box 10 / Folder 41
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Shakespeare without words and other essays." Comparative Drama. 8.2: 216-218., Summer 1974
- Box 10 / Folder 42
- Styan, J.L. "Three bites at contemporary drama." CEA Critic. XXXVII.1: 38-39, November 1974
- Box 10 / Folder 43
- Styan, J.L. "Dramatic literature." Encyclopedia Britannica. 15. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.., 1974
- Box 10 / Folder 44
- Styan, J.L. "Dramatic gossip, review, The Chekhov play: A new interpretation." CEA Critic. XXXVII.3: 29-30., March 1975
- Box 10 / Folder 45
- Styan, J.L. "The perceptual critcism of drama." Speech and Drama. 24.3: 2-5., Autumn 1975
- Box 10 / Folder 46
- Styan, J.L. "Chekhov eviscerated, review, The real Chekhov: An introduction to Chekhov." CEA Critic. XXXVIII.1: 31-32., November 1975
- Box 10 / Folder 47
- Styan, J.L. "The tragic accent, review, The iceman, the arsonists, and the troubled agent: Tragedy and melodrama on the modern stage." Michigan Quarterly Review. XIV.1: 111-115., Winter 1975
- Box 10 / Folder 48
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Six dramatists in search of a language: Studies in dramatic language." Modern Drama: 394-395., February 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 49
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Chekhov, 1860-1904." Comparative Drama. 10.1: 86-88., Spring 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 50
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The frame structure of Tudor and Stuart drama." SCN: 15., Spring 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 51
- Styan, J.L. "Playhouse perceptions of Shakespeare: A direction for study." [Shakespeare Newsletter]. XXVI.3: 24., May 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 52
- Styan, J.L. "Caldwell Cook and the play way with Shakespeare." Exchange. 2.3: 40-46., Summer 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 53
- Styan, J.L. "Elizabethan open staging William Poel to Tyrone Guthrie." Michigan Quarterly Review. 37.3: 211-220., September 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 54
- Styan, J.L. "Shakespeare show and tell." Teaching Shakespeare Ideas for the Classroom. 1.1: 1-2., Fall 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 55
- "Shakespeare's use of his stage." Shakespeare and English history: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Ed. Ronald G. Shafer. [Indiana]: Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 29-44., 1976
- Box 10 / Folder 56
- Styan, J.L. "Sight and space: the perception of Shakespeare on stage and screen." Educational Theatre Journal. 29.14/15: 18-28., March 1977
- Box 10 / Folder 57
- Styan, J.L. "A handbook of limited usefulness, review, Shakespeare's playhouse practice: A handbook." Shakespeare Quarterly. 28.2: 266., Spring 1977
- Box 10 / Folder 58
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Modern Shakespeare offshoots." Comparative Drama. 11.4: 350-353., Winter 1977-1978
- Box 10 / Folder 59
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Butter's going up: A critical analysis of Harold Pinter's work." Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 77.2: 302-304., April 1978
- Box 10 / Folder 60
- Styan, J.L. "Psychology in the study of drama: The negative and the positive." College Literature. V.2: 77-93., Spring 1978
- Box 10 / Folder 61
- Styan, J.L. "Shakespeare and the midwives: Some observations on Shakespeare in performance." Exchange: A Journal of Opinion for the Performing Arts. 4.2: 1-7., Spring-Summer 1978
- Box 10 / Folder 62
- Styan, J.L. "Review, A life in a wooden O: Memoirs of the theatre." Comparative Drama. 12.3: 271-273., Fall 1978
- Box 10 / Folder 63
- Styan, J.L. "A performance pedant at Stratford." Shakespeare Newsletter. 34., 1978
- Box 10 / Folder 64
- Styan, J.L. "A view from the crucible; Or, the compleat playwright." Michigan Quarterly Review. XVIII.3: 509-515., Summer 1979
- Box 10 / Folder 65
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The masks of Macbeth." Comparative Drama. 13.2: 171-175., Summer 1979
- Box 10 / Folder 66
- Styan, J.L. "High tide in the London theatre: Some notes on the 1978-79 season." Comparative Drama. 13.3: 252-257., Fall 1979
- Box 10 / Folder 67
- Styan, J.L.. "Changeable taffeta: Shakespeare's character in performance." Shakespeare: The Theatrical Dimension. Ed. Philip C. McGuire and Ed. David A. Samuelson. New York: AMS Press. 133-147., 1979
- Box 10 / Folder 68
- Styan, J.L. "Pirandellian theatre games: Spectator as victim." Modern Drama. XXIII.2: 96-101., June 1980
- Box 10 / Folder 69
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Metafictional characters in modern drama." Modern Drama. XXIII.2: 213-215., June 1980
- Box 10 / Folder 70
- Peat, Derek. "Teaching through performance: An intervew with J.L. Styan." Shakespeare Quarterly. 31.2: 142-152., Summer 1980
- Box 10 / Folder 71
- Styan, J.L. "The drama: Reason in madness." Theatre Journal: 371-385., October 1980
- Box 10 / Folder 72
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Theatre at Statford-upon-Avon: A catalogue-Index to productions of the Shakespeare Memorial/Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1879-1978." Comparative Drama. 15.2: 190-192., Summer 1981
- Box 10 / Folder 73
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Shakespeare's 'more than words can witness': Essays on visual and nonverbal enactment of the plays." Shakespeare Studies. XIV. 326-332., 1981
- Box 10 / Folder 74
- Styan, J.L. "Shakespeare's art of manipulating the audience." Shakespeare Newsletter. XXXII.1: 3., February 1982
- Box 10 / Folder 75
- Styan, J.L. "Why A View from the Bridge went down well in London: The story of a revision." Arthur Miller: New perspectives. Ed. Robert A. Martin. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. 139-147., 1982
- Box 10 / Folder 76
- Styan, J.L. "Recent studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 22.: 332-369., 1982
- Box 10 / Folder 77
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Christian ritual and the world of Shakespeare's tragedies." CLIO. 11.2: 189-191., 1982
- Box 10 / Folder 78
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Drama, dance and music." Comparative Drama. 16.4: 374-376., Winter 1982-1983
- Box 10 / Folder 79
- Styan, J.L. "Tennessee Williams: America's Chekhov." Tennessee Williams Review: 8-11., Spring 1983
- Box 10 / Folder 80
- Styan, J.L. "Psychology in the study of drama: The negative and the positive." College Literature. X.3: 251-267., Fall 1983
- Box 10 / Folder 81
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Dramaturgy of the daemonic: Studies in antigeneric theater from Ruzante to Grimaldi." Comparative Drama. 18.4: 373-374., Winter 1984-1985
- Box 10 / Folder 82
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Shakespeare the director." Modern Philology. 83.1: 71-73., August 1985
- Box 10 / Folder 83
- Simpson Stern, Carol. "An interview with J.L. Styan." Literature in Performance. 6.1: 54-71., November 1985
- Box 10 / Folder 84
- Styan, J.L.. "Chekhov's dramatic technique." A Chekhov companion. Ed. Toby W. Clyman. Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press. 107-122., 1985
- Box 10 / Folder 85
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Elizabethan stage conventions and modern interpreters." Theatre Survey: 197-203., [1985]
- Box 10 / Folder 86
- Styan, J.L. "Quince's questions and the mystery of the play experience." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism: 3-16., Fall 1986
- Box 10 / Folder 87
- Styan, J.L. "Foreign research fellows report." Human Sciences Research Council Research Bulletin. 16.9: 32-34., 1986
- Box 10 / Folder 88
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Shakespeare's analogical scene: Parody as structural syntax."(Unidentified publication): 118-121., [1986]
- Box 10 / Folder 89
- Styan, J.L. "Review, To analyze delight: A hedonists criticism of Shakespeare." Modern Philology. 84.3: 311-314., February 1987
- Box 10 / Folder 90
- Styan, J.L. "The discipline of performance criticism." SATJ. 1.2: 4-19., September 1987
- Box 10 / Folder 91
- Styan, J.L. "On seeing Hamlet in performance." Hamlet Studies. 9.1/2: 9-20., Summer and winter 1987
- Box 10 / Folder 92
- Styan, J.L. "Understanding Shakespeare in performance." Shakespeare in Southern Africa. 1: 19-29., 1987
- Box 10 / Folder 93
- Styan, J.L. "Shakespeare's fusion of the arts." Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal. V: 10-27., 1988
- Box 10 / Folder 94
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The actor in history: Studies in Shakespearean stage poetry." CLIO. 19.1: 79-81., Fall 1989
- Box 10 / Folder 95
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Shakespeare's metrical art." English Language Notes. 27.3: 78-80., March 1990
- Box 10 / Folder 96
- Styan, J.L.. "In search of the real Shakespeare; or, Shakespeare's shows and shadows." New Issues in the Reconstruction of Shakespeare's Theatre: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the University of Georgia. February 16-18, 1990 . Ed. Franklin J. Hildy. New York: Peter Lang. 185-205., 1990
- Box 10 / Folder 97
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The absent voice: Narrative comprehension in the theater." Comparative Drama. 25.2: 193-195., Summer 1991
- Box 10 / Folder 98
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Adolphe Appia, theatre artist." Modern Drama. XXXIV.4: 573-575., December 1991
- Box 10 / Folder 99
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Sir John Vanbrugh: The playwright as architect." Albion. 24.2: 327-328., Summer 1992
- Box 10 / Folder 100
- Styan, J.L. "Review, Modern British drama, 1890-1990." Comparative Drama. 26.3: 276-279., Fall 1992
- Box 10 / Folder 101
- Styan, J.L. "Review, The play of personality in the restoration theatre." Albion. 25.4: 696-697., Winter 1993
- Box 10 / Folder 102
- Styan, J.L. "Chekhov and American drama in the early twentieth century." American Drama. 4.2: 3-20., Fall 1994
- Box 10 / Folder 103
- Styan, J.L. "Political cressida in performance." Shakespeare Worldwide. 14/15: 263-266., 1995
- Box 10 / Folder 104
- Styan, J.L.. "The spirit of the playhouse in restoration comedy." Anglistentag. 1996. Ed. Uwe Boker and Hans Sauer. Dresden: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 15-25., 1997
- Box 10 / Folder 105
- Styan, J.L.. "The writing assignment: The basic question." Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Roland E. Salomone and Ed. James E. Davis. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 3-10., 1997
- Box 10 / Folder 106
- Styan, J.L. "All's well that ends well: On seeing and hearing the opening scene." Connotations. 7.2: 215-218., 1997-1998
- Box 10 / Folder 107
- Styan, J.L. "Some late reflections on tragedy and its theatrical chemistry." Comparative Drama. 33: 166-176., 1999
- Box 10 / Folder 108
- Styan, J.L. A series of three articles on Shakespeare's stagecraft, published in Around the Globe , 1999-2001
- Box 10 / Folder 109
- Styan, J.L. A series of three articles on Shakespeare's stagecraft, published in Around the Globe , 2001/02-2005
Subseries 4B: Writings: Books, 1959-2000
- Scope and Content
- Material includes book jackets, contracts, correspondence with publishers, reviews and newspaper clippings.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized chronologically.
- Box 11 / Folder 1
- Appreciation of the Play: Contract, 1959
- Box 11 / Folder 2
- Appreciation of the Play: Correspondence, 1955-1962, 1969 and 1987
- Box 11 / Folder 3
- Appreciation of the Play: Reviews and newspaper clippings, 1960-1966
- Box 11 / Folder 4
- Elements of Drama: Correspondence, 1963-1986
- Box 11 / Folder 5
- The Dark Comedy: Book jackets, Circa 1962 and 1968
- Box 11 / Folder 6
- The Dark Comedy: Contracts, 1961 and 1967
- Box 11 / Folder 7
- The Dark Comedy: Correspondence, 1959-1978
- Box 11 / Folder 8
- The Dark Comedy: Reviews and newspaper clippings, 1962-1968
- Box 11 / Folder 9
- The Dramatic Experience: Book jackets, Circa 1962
- Box 11 / Folder 10
- The Dramatic Experience: Contract, 1961
- Box 11 / Folder 11
- The Dramatic Experience: Correspondence, 1960-1976
- Box 11 / Folder 12
- The Dramatic Experience: Reviews and newspaper clippings, 1966-1968
- Box 11 / Folder 13
- Shakespeare's Stagecraft: Book jacket, Circa 1967
- Box 11 / Folder 14
- Shakespeare's Stagecraft: Contract, 1966
- Box 11 / Folder 15
- Shakespeare's Stagecraft: Correspondence, 1965-1990
- Box 11 / Folder 16
- Shakespeare's Stagecraft: Reviews, 1967-1973
- Box 11 / Folder 17
- Chekhov in Performance: Contract, 1970
- Box 11 / Folder 18
- Chekhov in Performance: Correspondence, 1968-1978
- Box 11 / Folder 19
- Chekhov in Performance: Reviews, 1971-1973
- Box 11 / Folder 20
- Drama, Stage and Audience: Book jacket, Circa 1974
- Box 11 / Folder 21
- Drama, Stage and Audience: Contract, 1973
- Box 11 / Folder 22
- Drama, Stage and Audience: Correspondence, 1973-1975
- Box 11 / Folder 23
- Drama, Stage and Audience: Reviews and newspaper clippings, 1975-1978
- Box 11 / Folder 24
- The Shakespeare Revolution: Contract, 1975
- Box 11 / Folder 25
- The Shakespeare Revolution: Correspondence, 1970-1983
- Box 11 / Folder 26
- The Shakespeare Revolution: Reviews, 1977-1978, 1984 and 1986
- Box 11 / Folder 27
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice 1, 2 and 3: Book jackets, Circa 1977
- Box 11 / Folder 28
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice 1, 2 and 3: Contract, 1976
- Box 11 / Folder 29
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice 1, 2 and 3: Correspondence, 1975-1991
- Box 11 / Folder 30
- Modern Drama in Theory and Practice 1, 2 and 3: Reviews and newspaper clippings, 1981-1983
- Box 11 / Folder 31
- Directors in Perspective: Max Reinhardt: Book jacket, Circa 1982
- Box 11 / Folder 32
- Directors in Perspective: Max Reinhardt: Contract, 1978
- Box 11 / Folder 33
- Directors in Perspective: Max Reinhardt: Correspondence, 1978-1989
- Box 11 / Folder 34
- Directors in Perspective: Max Reinhardt: Reviews and newspaper clippings, 1983-1984
- Box 11 / Folder 35
- Restoration Comedy in Performance: Book jacket, Circa 1986
- Box 11 / Folder 36
- Restoration Comedy in Performance: Contract, 1982
- Box 11 / Folder 37
- Restoration Comedy in Performance: Correspondence, 1982-2000
- Box 11 / Folder 38
- Restoration Comedy in Performance: Reviews, 1986-1988
- Box 11 / Folder 39
- Shakespeare in Performance: All's Well That Ends Well: Contract, 1983
- Box 11 / Folder 40
- Shakespeare in Performance: All's Well That Ends Well: Correspondence, 1978-1984
- Box 11 / Folder 41
- Shakespeare in Performance: All's Well That Ends Well: Reviews, 1986
- Box 11 / Folder 42
- The State of Drama Study: Contract, 1983
- Box 11 / Folder 43
- The State of Drama Study: Correspondence, 1983-1988
- Box 11 / Folder 44
- The English Stage: Contract, 1995
- Box 11 / Folder 45
- The English Stage: Correspondence, 1987-2000
- Box 11 / Folder 46
- The English Stage: Reviews, 1998
- Box 11 / Folder 47
- Perspectives on Performance, 1998-2000
- Box 11 / Folder 48
- Drama: A Guide to the Study of Plays, 1998-2000
Subseries 4C: Plays, Poems and Sketches, 1941-1962
- Scope and Content
- Material includes plays, poems and other examples of Styan's creative unpublished writings.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized chronologically.
- Box 12 / Folder 1
- List of unpublished writings, Undated
- Box 12 / Folder 2
- Poems, Circa 1941-1942
- Box 12 / Folder 3
- Christina: A Play in three acts and a story of a home front, August 22, 1945
- Box 12 / Folder 4
- Death and Fantasy: A proposal for an anthology, Circa 1946
- Box 12 / Folder 5
- Made with My Own Fruit: A one act play, November 9, 1946
- Box 12 / Folder 6
- The Builders: A short story, 1947
- Box 12 / Folder 7
- "Words and Experience in Adolescence", December 1947
- Box 12 / Folder 8
- The Dragon and George: A Christmas pantomime, Circa 1948
- Box 12 / Folder 9
- "Journey Nowhere," poem, November 22, 1949
- Box 12 / Folder 10
- The Idealists: A drama in one act, Circa 1949
- Box 12 / Folder 11
- ["Son of a Mermaid"], story, Circa 1949
- Box 12 / Folder 12
- "Summer school sketches," University of Hull, 1959-1965
- Box 12 / Folder 13
- The Misogynist and the Cook: A farcical trifle in one act, January 7, 1952
- Box 12 / Folder 14
- When in Urbino: A play, January 1954
- Box 12 / Folder 15
- The Beach Party: A play, Circa 1955
- Box 12 / Folder 16
- Disturbing the Dominoes: A comedy in two acts, 1957
- Box 12 / Folder 17
- Godot at the Circus, 1962
Series 4: Secondary Sources and Research Files, 1925-1990s
- Scope and Content
- Secondary sources and research files include articles and newspaper clippings.
- Arrangement
- Material is organized alphabetically by subject.
- Box 13 / Folder 1
- Research: Book catalogs, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 2
- Research: Anton Chekhov, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 3
- Research: T. S. Eliot, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 4
- Research: David Hare, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 5
- Research: Greek and Roman theater, 1980s
- Box 13 / Folder 6
- Research: Medieval and Renaissance theater, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 7
- Research: Medieval and Renaissance theater revivals, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 8
- Research: Moscow Art theater, 1920s and miscellaneous dates
- Box 13 / Folder 9
- Research: Restoration theater, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 10
- Research: Restoration theater: Illustrations, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 11
- Research: Royal Shakespeare Company: Postcard illustrations of productions, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 12
- Research: Semiotics, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 13
- Research: Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, 1940s-1960s
- Box 13 / Folder 14
- Research: Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, 1970-1974
- Box 13 / Folder 15
- Research: Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, 1975-1979
- Box 13 / Folder 16
- Research: Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, 1980s
- Box 13 / Folder 17
- Research: Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, 1990s
- Box 13 / Folder 18
- Research: Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, Undated
- Box 13 / Folder 19
- Research: Stratford Festival: Postcard illustrations of productions, 1970s
- Box 13 / Folder 20
- Research: General theater, Undated
- Box 14
- The works of Shakespeare, 1921-1966
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Physical Description: 39 volumes
- Scope and Content
- From Styan's personal library with his annotations and enclosures throughout. This set is commonly known as the Cambridge Shakespeare, edited for the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson. Volumes are arranged in alphabetical order by title (with collected poetry and sonnets located at the end of the set).
