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{"value"=>"1076315", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1936-1956", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1936/1956"}
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1936
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1956
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1936
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1936
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1956
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{"value"=>"Series IV - Projects"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"84 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains notes, production ideas, correspondence, clippings, scripts and programs for book projects, curriculum development ideas, ideas for plays, and plays produced by Robert Klein both professionally and at colleges in the United States. Of special note are the files on the play <em render=\"italic\">Time For A Change</em> which was an adaptation of Aristophanes' <em render=\"italic\">Ecclesiazusae</em>, and the files for <em render=\"italic\">Scandal in Assyria</em>. <em render=\"italic\">Time For A Change</em>, produced in 1953-1954, caused major controversy at Cooper Union when the president of the college and Lawrence Langner insisted upon censoring part of the text because it was thought to include communist ideology. <em render=\"italic\">Scandal in Assyria</em> was written by Axel Kjellstrom (the pseudonym for Robert Klein, Gerald Bullett and Walter Hasenclever) produced in London in 1939 and directed by John Gielgud. The play is a satire and parodies the political situation in Germany at the time. However, much of the correspondence is from 1957 and concerns a later European production. Quite a few of his projects are related to the playwright Bernard Shaw. A Shavian enthusiast, Klein not only produced many of Shaw's works but also planned a book on Shaw and a festival based on the plays of Shaw.</p>"}
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84 linear feet; 2 boxes