The Mystery of Anna O

N.p. N.p., 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1992 play, first staged off-Broadway at the John Houseman Studio Theater in the autumn of 1992. Copy belonging to Jerome Coopersmith, with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout in his hand (as well as some annotations in another hand), denoting dialogue for multiple characters and providing blocking for same.

A dramatization of the experiences of "Anna O.," the pseudonym given to Bertha Pappenheim, the first-ever psychoanalytic patient, treated by Josef Breuer, a friend and collaborator of Sigmund Freud. Playwrights Jerome Coopersmith and Lucy Freeman would go on to collaborate on "Reflections of a Murder," a 1998 off-Broadway murder mystery.

Pale yellow titled wrappers, with credits for Coopersmith and Freeman on the front wrapper, year noted as 1989. Title page present, noted as REVISED 1989, with credits for Coopersmith and Freeman. 86 leaves, with last page of text numbered II-32. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining to the front wrapper, bound with three gold brads.

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