Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH,
1967-1973
Series 2: AMHERST COLLEGE,
1929-1980
Series 3: YALE UNIVERSITY,
1954-1992
Series 4: MISCELLANEOUS,
1936-1981
Series 5: PORTRAITS AND PHOTOGRAPHS,
1946, n.d.
Series 6: THE CRAFT OF PLAY DIRECTING,
ca. 1963
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F. Curtis Canfield (AC 1925) Papers, 1929-1981
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Peter Nelson.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2003
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Creator:
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Canfield, Curtis, 1903- |
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Title:
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Canfield Papers |
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Dates:
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1929-1981 |
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Abstract:
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Drama professor and director. Collection includes course and lecture notes, as well as some correspondence, newspaper clippings, framed portraits and photographs, and material for Canfield's books.
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Extent:
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3 records storage boxes, 1 archives box, 2 oversize flat boxes(4.5 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
Fayette Curtis Canfield (AC 1925), drama professor and director, was born on July 29, 1903 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. After his graduation in 1925, he worked at Amherst as Professor of Theatre and Dramatic Art until 1954. From 1938 onwards, he was also Director of Amherst's Kirby Theater. In 1954, he was appointed the first dean of the Yale University School of Drama, a position he held for thirteen years. He left Yale in 1967 to teach Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, where he stayed until his retirement in 1973. Canfield was a trustee of the National Theatre Conference from 1958 to 1964 and of the American Shakespeare Theatre Festival Academy from 1962 to 1968; and a member of the Century Association of New York from 1953 to 1971. He was awarded honorary degrees by Amherst and Emerson Colleges, and by Yale University. Canfield was married to Katherine F. Newbold on May 21, 1927. He died in Northampton on June 8, 1986, at the age of 82.
Canfield wrote and edited several books on theatre, including Plays of the Irish Renaissance (1929), Plays of Changing Ireland (1936), The Seed and the Sowers: A Chronicle of the Founding of Amherst College (1955), and The Craft of Play Directing (1963).
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The bulk of the collection is made up of notes and other materials relating to Canfield's courses, lectures, and speeches, spanning his careers at Amherst, Yale and the University of Pittsburgh. The papers also include some correspondence, newspaper clippings, and material for his books, as well as a few framed portraits and photographs.
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This collection is organized into six series:
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Series 1: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH,
1967-1973
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Folder
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1 |
Merrill Trust
1972-73
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Ibsen: Peer Gynt
1968-69
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Records of the Merrill Fellowships
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Albee; The Soundbox; The Puzzle; Tiny Alice; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Playbills and notes)
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Notes for Speech 82
1972-73
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Lecture notes for Speech 82
1968-69
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O'Neill: Long Day's Journey...
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Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac
1973
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Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan
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Shaw: The Doctor's Dilemma
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Fry: The Lady's Not For Burning
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Shakespeare: The Tempest
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Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Director's problems
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15 |
Rice: The Adding Machine; Typist Shisgal
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Speech 227 - Dramatic Literature and Styles
1978
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Gorki: The Lower Depths
1973
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Brecht: Mother Courage
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Miller: Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
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Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
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O'Neill: The Homecoming
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Shakespeare comparisons
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Strindberg: The Father
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Dramatic Literature and Styles: The Hairy Ape
1973
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O'Neill: Morning Becomes Electra
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35 |
Talk to Women's Association on the New York season
1969
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Talk at Pittsburgh drama rally
1967
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern... - photos and playscript
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Marat-Sade - playscript, notes
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John Brown's Body
1973
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Visiting British director - Tyrone Guthrie and FCC
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44 |
Classical Tradition (folder empty)
1973
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Talk at Massachusetts Chapter of AETA (folder empty)
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Speech on Abbott Van Nostrand and the Samuel French plays (folder empty)
1980
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Notes on John Brown's Body
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Miscellaneous letters
1971-
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Report on the future of the arts at University of Pittsburgh
1970
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Mowatt: Fashion, or Life in New York
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New York Times Book Review - review of Broadway, by FCC
1970
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54 |
The Craft of Play Directing - by FCC - manuscript
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The Craft of Play Directing - Permissions
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Fashion, or Life in New York - newsclippings
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Early miscellaneous clippings, programs, etc. by Ralph C. McGoun (AC 1927)
1930's
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Series 2: AMHERST COLLEGE,
1929-1980
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Order of exercises at Stanley King's Inauguration
1942
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Letter to Andrew Canfield re: end of Navy and future
1946
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The Seed and the Sowers, by FCC - written for 125th Anniversary of the Masquers
1946
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Burgess Meredith (AC 1930)
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Chapel Talk - An Amherst Astronomer
1954
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Pouffer: The Shapes Arise manuscript
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10 |
Oral History interviews with Hewlett
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The Afterglow - a tribute to Robert Frost
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Writings and copies by FCC
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Talk to Amherst Faculty Club re: MIT WWII experiences
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Older notes from courses at Amherst College
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Miscellaneous talks - Hartford alumni
1947-48
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Masquers Trip to Vienna
1933
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Fashion - Abbott Van Nostrand
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Letter from FCC on the impermanence of theater art
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Senior Chapel speech
1947
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Humorous talk on the occasion of the Class of 1923 Reunion
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M. Abbott Van Nostrand and his collection of the publications of the Samuel French Companies - President's House
1980
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Evolution of a Playgoer
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Class notes - Humanities 22
1954
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Class notes - Dramatic Arts 43, Directing
1953
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Williamstown, MA - The Reluctant Debutante
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Address to the Amherst Alumni, New York
1946
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Macmillan Company - Correspondence
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Remarks - Prelude to Presentation of Award at Emerson College
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Remarks at Memorial Service for Charles E. Rogers
1980
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Memorial Service for David Morton - Johnson Chapel
1957
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Memorial Services, for Eugene S. Wilson; Dan Seymour
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Speech to Sabrina Society
1975
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Chapel talks on Amherst College
1947
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Class notes - Humanities 21, Medieval Drama
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Class notes - Maeterlinck (Symbolism)
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Class notes - Humanities 22, Dryden
1951
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Lecture notes - Humanities 22
1951
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Class notes - Humanities 22
1951
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Speech to 45th Reunion of the Class of '52
1977
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Speech to 45th Reunion of the Class of '33
1978
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Class notes - Stage composition
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Humanities - Finished work - Ibsen
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Humanities - Finished work - Frye
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Humanities - Finished work - O'Neill
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Humanities - Finished work - Odets
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Humanities - Finished work - Miscellaneous
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Poetic Drama... Irish plays
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Kaiser - Expressionism
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Miscellaneous notes - clippings used in compiling
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Talk at AETA - notes by President
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Lecture notes - Evolution of a Playgoer
1934
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Class notes - Early American Drama
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Old notes for course on Greek and Roman theatre
1930-
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Lecture notes - Dramatic History
1930-
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Amherst Summer Theater:
1940?
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Series 3: YALE UNIVERSITY,
1954-1992
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Letters - Ralph Williams, John Whicher, Herschel Williams
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Yale Alumni Magazine
1954
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Tragedy of (Xenathaeis?) - 45 rpm vinyl disc
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"Cole" - Yale salute to Cole Porter
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Lecture - The Performing Arts - Toronto
1965
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"Lost Portraits of Thomas Jefferson," Mead Art Gallery
1959
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First speech at Yale as
1954
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End of first school year at Yale
1955
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Commencement addresses at Yale
1959-64
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Lecture - The Yale Plan
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Talk to Yale Club of New Haven
1961
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Talk to Alumni group - Cincinnati and Louisville
1963
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Honorary degree - Emerson College
1956
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Honorary Degree - University of Pittsburgh
1973
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Letter of Resignation - FCC to Kingman Brewster
1968
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Speech to Yale alumni at Winter Park
1960
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Correspondence - Katherine Canfield to Yale School of Drama
1992
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Series 4: MISCELLANEOUS,
1936-1981
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Folder
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Newsclippings from the American Press Clipping
1936
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Miscellaneous letters, articles, pamphlets, etc.
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MIT Class of 1946 Reunion Book
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Speech at 20th Navy Reunion, Provincetown, MA
1960
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Speech at 35th Navy Reunion, Woodstock VT
1981
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MIT Navy V-12 Unit
1943-46
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Photograph - FCC at MIT
1945
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TECHNIQUE (MIT Yearbook)
1945
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Series 5: PORTRAITS AND PHOTOGRAPHS,
1946, n.d.
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Sketched portrait, 10 x 13 1/2 - "To Curt Canfield with warm appreciation," signed "Stanley King"
1946
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Unidentified portrait, B/W photo, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2
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Unidentified portrait with Sabrina, color photo, 10 3/4 x
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Professor Charles Morgan, B/W photo, 11 3/4 x 13 3/4
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Series 6: THE CRAFT OF PLAY DIRECTING,
ca. 1963
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Art and blueprints for Canfield's book The Craft of Play Directing.
ca. 1963
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