Linda Ben-Zvi

Susan Glaspell

Her Life and Times

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The biography of Susan Glaspell traces the development of the first important American female playwright and illustrates the ways in which her fascinating, avant-garde life provided the model and materials for her groundbreaking dramas and fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780195313239
• ISBN-10: 0195313232
• Artikelnr.: 21115448

Autorenporträt

Linda Ben-Zvi is Professor of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University and Professor Emerita of English and Theatre at Colorado State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface: A Pioneering Life
Introduction: Blackhawk's Land
Part I: Midwest Beginnings (1876-1907)
1: A Town Springs Up
2: Families In Fact and Fiction
3: Society Girls
4: Delphic Days
5: "Murder, She Wrote": The Genesis of Trifles
6: Chicago
Part II: Susan and Jig (1907-1913)
7: A Greek Out of Time
8: The Monist Society
9: Letters to Mollie
10: Travel at Home and Abroad
11: Though Stone Be Broken
12: Staging Area for the Future
Interlude 1: Greenwich Village 1913, "The Joyous Season"
Part III: The Provincetown Players (1914-1922)
13: A Home by the Sea
14: War and Peace
15: A Theatre on a Wharf
16: Summer 1916, Two Playwrights
17: A New Kind of Theatre
18: "Fire from Heaven" on MacDougal Street
19: Here Pegasus was Hitched
20: Inheritors
21: The Verge and Beyond
22: The End of the Dream
Interlude 2: Delphi 1922-1924, "The Road to the Temple"
Part IV: Going On (1924-1948)
23: Picking Up the Pieces
24: Novel Times
25: Alison's House
26: Break Up
27: The Federal Theatre Project
28: A Different War
29: Completing the Circle
Bibliography
Notes