{"id":127,"date":"2019-10-25T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:36:28","slug":"beginnings-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/home\/the-papers\/beginnings\/beginnings-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theresa Rebeck holds two master\u2019s degrees from Brandeis University: an MA in English and American literature as well as an MFA in Dramatic Writing.\u00a0 She received her PhD from Brandeis in English and American literature with her dissertation on Victorian melodrama.\u00a0 The title of her dissertation is \u201cYour cries are in vain: a theory of the melodramatic heroine\u201d (1989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebeck\u2019s papers include some materials related to examination of 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century plays, such as John Oxenford\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Two Orphans<\/em>&nbsp;(1874) in preparation for her dissertation, but also include notes and drafts of Rebeck\u2019s adaptations of other plays as she studied dramatic structure and characters.&nbsp; These academic efforts enlighten the careful plot construction and thoughtful roles and dialog in Rebeck\u2019s playwriting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebeck was quoted in&nbsp;<em>American Theatre<\/em>&nbsp;(October 2005): \u201cI\u2019m interested in work that is subversively accessible and yet intellectually and psychologically complex, and rewarding to a deeper understanding of theatrical storytelling and human psychology.&nbsp; The people who achieve that are Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock.&nbsp; I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m in their company, but that\u2019s who I have my sights on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;This undated typescript is Theresa Rebeck\u2019s draft adaptation of a 1920 science fiction play by Czech writer Karel \u010capek,&nbsp;<em>R.U.R. Rossum\u2019s Universal Robots: a collective drama in a comic prologue and three acts<\/em>, from a 1988 translation by Claudia Novack-Jones.&nbsp; In addition to Rebeck\u2019s edited script, the archive includes her notes analyzing all aspects of the play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Theresa Rebeck holds two master\u2019s degrees from Brandeis University: an MA in English and American literature as well as an MFA in Dramatic Writing.\u00a0 She received her PhD from Brandeis in English and American literature with her dissertation on Victorian melodrama.\u00a0 The title of her dissertation is \u201cYour cries are in vain: a theory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":118,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions\/274"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/rebeck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}