Call Number:

F0918

Repository:

University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Extent:

2 item (310 pages)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

MSS 0099, F0918, Barrie Stavis letter to Horst and Barbara Höhne, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

Date:

1991 april 11 (inclusive)

Creator:

Stavis, Barrie

Form:

correspondence and Periodicals

Abstract:

In April of 1991, American playwright Barrie Stavis wrote this letter to the Höhnes to accompany the enclosed issue of Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, which contains Stavis's Lamp at Midnight: a Play about Galileo.

American playwright and author Barrie Stavis wrote numerous dramas, including ones regarding historical figures Galileo, Joe Hill, John Brown, and the biblical Joseph.

Born June 16, 1906, in New York City, Barrie Stavis was the co-founder of New Stages (a cooperative Off-Broadway theater venture) in New York in 1947. Stavis’s play,

Lamp at Midnight: A Play about Galileo was first produced at New Stages Theatre on December 21, 1947.

Other notable plays written by Barrie Stavis include

The Man Who Never Died: A Play about Joe Hill (first produced at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, in November 1955), Harpers Ferry: A Play about John Brown (first produced as Banners of Steel at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, on May 18, 1962) and Coat of Many Colors: A Play about Joseph in Egypt (first produced at the Pardoe Theatre of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, on April 20, 1966).

Barrie Stavis, who also wrote a novel, short stories, articles, essays and historical nonfiction, died on February 2, 2007.

"Barrie Stavis." Contemporary Authors Online. http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed April 2012).

Author and professor of English literature Horst Karl Heinrich Höhne and his wife Barbara Knick Höhne, a physician, were friends of Barrie Stavis.

Horst Karl Heinrich Höhne, who was born on September 13, 1927, in Neudiedersdorf, Germany, was Professor of English literature at the University of Rostock, in Rostock, Germany, from 1963 to 1992.

Höhne has contributed over one hundred scholarly articles, monographs, and reviews to periodicals, including: works on English literature, twentieth-century British drama, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Two of the books written by Höhne are

Life and Literature: Essays (1996) and In Pursuit of Love: The Short and Troublesome Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2000).

"Horst Karl Heinrich Höhne." Contemporary Authors Online. Contemporary Authors Online. http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed April 2012).

In April of 1991, American playwright Barrie Stavis wrote this letter to the Höhnes to accompany the enclosed issue of

Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, which contains Stavis's Lamp at Midnight: a Play about Galileo.

This issue of

Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature focused entirely on the work of Barrie Stavis and included the text of his play, Lamp at Midnight: A Play about Galileo. The letter also detailed the recent and future productions of Lamp at Midnight: A Play about Galileo, including the Hallmark Hall of Fame television production, which was broadcast on April 9, 1991, just two days prior to the writing of this letter.