Guide to the Anthony Caputi Papers,
1956-1989

Collection Number: 14-12-3593

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Meaghan Corbett
Date completed:
June 2007
EAD encoding:
Meaghan Corbett, June 2007

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Anthony Caputi papers, 1952-1989
Collection Number:
14/12/3593
Creator:
Anthony Francis, Caputi 1924-
Quantity:
3 cubic feet.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes lecture notes, correspondence, and course material on various drama courses. taught.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University from 1956-1991, serving some time as chair in both departments.
He completed his B.A. in English at the University of Buffalo, followed by his M.A. in 1951. In 1956 he received his PhD from Cornell. He received a Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University in 1954-1955, a senior Fulbright Fellowship, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship to Italy in 1964-1965 and in 1971-1972 he held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes lecture notes, correspondence, and course material on various drama courses. taught.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Caputi, Anthony Francis,1924-
Cornell University.English Dept.
Cornell University.--Faculty.

Subjects:
English literature--Study and teaching.
College teachers.
Drama--Study and teaching.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Anthony Caputi papers, #14/12/3593. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Course Material
Greek Drama - Dramatic Production
 Box 1 Folder 1
Sophocles
 Box 1 Folder 2
Aeschylus
 Box 1 Folder 3
Euripides
 Box 1 Folder 4
Aristophanes
 Box 1 Folder 5
1975-1976
Roman Theatre and Playwrights
 Box 1 Folder 6
1974-1975
Tragedy - Criticism
 Box 1 Folder 7
Christopher Marlowe
 Box 1 Folder 8
Pre-Elizabethan Drama
 Box 1 Folder 9
Contemporaries and Followers of Shakespeare to 1642
Box 1 Folder 10
Ben Jonson 1572-1637
 Box 1 Folder 11
Webster
 Box 1 Folder 12
Fore-runners of Shakespeare
 Box 1 Folder 13
1984-1985
Shakespeare: Introductory
 Box 1 Folder 14
Shakespeare: Comedies
 Box 1 Folder 15
1983
Intro. to Drama
 Box 1 Folder 16
Ben Jonson 1572-1637
 Box 1 Folder 17
Macbeth
 Box 1 Folder 18
Coriolanus
 Box 1 Folder 19
Othello / Lear
 Box 1 Folder 20
1977
Comedy Seminar
 Box 1 Folder 21
Restoration Drama and Playwrights
 Box 1 Folder 22
18th Century Drama
 Box 1 Folder 23
1972-1973
European Drama 1630-1900
 Box 1 Folder 24
Miscellaneous Notes
 Box 1 Folder 25
Shakespeare: Histories
 Box 1 Folder 26
Magic
 Box 1 Folder 27
Brecht
 Box 1 Folder 28
Pirandello
 Box 1 Folder 29
Modern Drama
 Box 1 Folder 30
1975
Modern Drama - Course Plan, Exams
 Box 1 Folder 31
Modernism
 Box 1 Folder 32
Brecht
 Box 2 Folder 1
Noel Coward
 Box 2 Folder 2
Chekhov, Strindberg
 Box 2 Folder 3
Miller
 Box 2 Folder 4
1983-1984
Miscellaneous Modernism
 Box 2 Folder 5
1980
Representative English Dramas
 Box 2 Folder 6
Assorted Modern Playwrights
 Box 2 Folder 7
1979
Shaw
 Box 2 Folder 8
Irish Drama
 Box 2 Folder 9
Comedy / Tragedy (2 Lectures)
 Box 2 Folder 10
1983
Four Modern Playwrights
 Box 2 Folder 11
19th Century Drama
 Box 2 Folder 12
1982
English 127 - Shakespeare
 Box 2 Folder 13
1984
Shakespeare - English 427
 Box 2 Folder 14
English 270.1
 Box 2 Folder 15
1983
Medieval / Spanish World Drama
 Box 2 Folder 16
Pinder
 Box 2 Folder 17
1965-1966
Dramatic Criticism
 Box 2 Folder 18
1989
American Humor
 Box 2 Folder 19
Three Ages of Theatre
 Box 2 Folder 20
O'Neill
 Box 2 Folder 21
Greek Comedy
 Box 2 Folder 22
1986
English 382
 Box 2 Folder 23
Correspondence Relating to Masterworks of World Drama
Box 2 Folder 24
1982
Course Evaluations
 Box 2 Folder 25
English 272.1
 Box 2 Folder 26
1984
Notes, Correspondence
 Box 2 Folder 27
Pudsey
 Box 2 Folder 28
Renaissance
 Box 2 Folder 29
English 564
 Box 2 Folder 30
Comedy
 Box 2 Folder 31
1973
English 201 Survey
 Box 2 Folder 32
English 147
 Box 2 Folder 33
English 149.2
 Box 2 Folder 34
1973
English 151.9 - Shakespeare and the Moderns
 Box 2 Folder 35
World Literature
 Box 2 Folder 36
1969-1970
Course in the Methods of Research
 Box 2 Folder 37
Quizzes, Exams, and Odd Quotations
 Box 2 Folder 38
1962
Talks, Papers, etc.
 Box 2 Folder 39
1968
Reports, etc.
 Box 2 Folder 40
1966
D.C. Heath Correspondence
 Box 2 Folder 41
1973-1974
Labor Liberal Arts Program
 Box 2 Folder 42
1962
Class Lists, Odd Records
 Box 2 Folder 43
Photographs
 Box 2 Folder 44
Modern Drama
 Box 2 Folder 45
English 388-389
 Box 2 Folder 46
1986
Word Processor Invoices
 Box 2 Folder 47
Job Placement
 Box 2 Folder 48
1979
Stratford
 Box 2 Folder 49
1988
Dramatic Literature
 Box 2 Folder 50
English 384 / 281
 Box 2 Folder 51
1952-1987
World Drama - Exams, Quizzes
 Box 2 Folder 52
1953-1987
Shakespeare - Quizzes, Outlines
 Box 3 Folder 1
1959-1980
British Drama - Quizzes, Prelims
 Box 3 Folder 2
Pierre Corneille
 Box 3 Folder 3
History of the English Language / Old English Literature
Box 3 Folder 4
Literature of the Middle Ages: Religious and Secular (Metrical Romances) to Chaucer
Box 3 Folder 5
Poetry
 Box 3 Folder 6
Geoffrey Chaucer: 1340-1400
 Box 3 Folder 7
Literature of the Middle Ages: The Period of Great Individual Writers (Langland, Gower, Pearl Poet)
Box 3 Folder 8
Edmund Spenser: 1552-1599
 Box 3 Folder 9
Renaissance Prose
 Box 3 Folder 10
Renaissance Criticism
 Box 3 Folder 11
The Sonnet
 Box 3 Folder 12
17th Century Poetry
 Box 3 Folder 13
17th Century Prose
 Box 3 Folder 14
John Milton
 Box 3 Folder 15
The Restoration
 Box 3 Folder 16
1961-1962
English 470
 Box 3 Folder 17
Augustan Age
 Box 3 Folder 18
Age of Johnson
 Box 3 Folder 19
Pre-Romantic Movement
 Box 3 Folder 20
Romanticism - Wordsworth and Coleridge
 Box 3 Folder 21
Byron, Shelley, Keats
 Box 3 Folder 22
19th Century Novel
 Box 3 Folder 23
Victorian Poetry
 Box 3 Folder 24
19th Century Prose
 Box 3 Folder 25
The Pre-Raphaelites
 Box 3 Folder 26
Modern Poetry
 Box 3 Folder 27
American Literature
 Box 3 Folder 28
Md. American Novel
 Box 3 Folder 29
Modern Novel
 Box 3 Folder 30