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The Jonathan Levy Papers, 1956-1999, contain correspondence, typescripts, contracts, class notes, publicity fliers, announcements, address lists, curricula, assessment tools, project descriptions, meeting minutes, conference materials, subject guides, grant resource lists, copyright documents, research notes, poems, speeches, articles, etchings, index card files, handwritten notes, production materials, music manuscripts and audiotapes. The majority of the collection consists of development and production materials for Levy's plays for adults and young audiences, 1964-1994, and research and pre-print materials for his books and articles on theatre for youth, 1960-1998, with the remainder of the material documenting his academic and arts education careers. The Papers are divided into nine series.

Series I: Biographical (pre-1963-1992) documents Levy's teaching career, contact with other theatre for youth professionals and his conference presentations. This series is arranged chronologically. Included are typescripts of lectures and conference presentations, class notes, correspondence, publicity fliers, announcements and his list of international theatre for youth addresses.

Series II: Projects and Academic Work (1984-1997) documents Levy's work with the Advisory Committee on the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe; ARTS PROPEL; and the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). This series is arranged chronologically by project. Included are correspondence with other project developers--some letters are from Howard Gardner, Ellen Winner and Dennie Wolf; playwriting curricula and assessment materials; history and project descriptions for ARTS PROPEL; IBO meeting minutes; IBO conference materials; IBO subject guides; and IBO international school files.

Series III: Publications Correspondence (1968-1979) documents Levy's playwriting career. This series is arranged chronologically. Included are correspondence with publishers, the Dramatists Guild and producers; copyright documents; and playwriting grant resources.

Series IV: Published Articles and Speeches (1956-1999) contains Levy's poems, speeches and articles on theatre history, theatre for youth, assessment, educational research, empathy and moral education, which were published in periodicals such as The Village Voice, Children's Theatre Review, Cricket, The Bennington Review, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Research in the Teaching of English and New Ideas in Psychology. These are arranged chronologically by publication title. His research and drafts for his chapter on the Dramatic Dialogues of Charles Stearns are also located here. Included are typescripts many with revisions, photocopies of published articles, research notes, photocopies of research from books and bibliographical notes.

Series V: Books (1960-1997) documents Levy's research and development work on an unpublished novel titled The Garden of Allison Saintfleur; his dissertation; his book chapter titled Preliminary Checklist of Early Printed Children's Plays in English, 1780-1855; and his books The Gymnasium of the Imagination: A Collection of Children's Plays in English, 1780-1860, and A Theatre of the Imagination: Reflections on Children and the Theatre. These are arranged chronologically by publication title. Included are typescript drafts, notes, research, Carlo Gozzi etchings, and correspondence. Also of note are seven boxes with index cards with the titles of books and periodicals divided into the following titles: Berquin I; Berquin II; Alice in Wonderland stage adaptations; translated plays for young audiences; literary annuals, gift books and periodicals with plays; reference books; dramatic proverbs; plays to add to the Checklist; and Checklist plays with annotations.

Series VI: Plays for Young Audiences (1970-1983) documents the development of the plays Levy wrote for young audiences. They are arranged chronologically by play title. Included are: typescript drafts of the plays, handwritten notes, play production materials, publicity fliers and correspondence.

Series VII: Plays for Adults (1967-1994) documents the development of the plays Levy wrote for adult audiences. They are arranged chronologically by play title. Included are typescript drafts of the plays, handwritten notes, research, a copy of The Genius of the Italian Theater, production materials, correspondence and some music manuscripts.

Series VIII: Oversize Materials contains materials too large to be housed in the previous document boxes. A Document Removal Form has been placed in the appropriate folders directing patrons to materials in this oversize series.

Series IX: Audio-Visual contains an audio taped reading of Levy's play Ziskin's Revels. Included in this box are the original two reel-to-reel audiotapes and copies of these recordings on two cassette audiotapes.