Linda Ben-Zvi

Susan Glaspell (eBook, PDF)

Her Life and Times

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Produktbeschreibung

"Venturesome feminist," historian Nancy Cott's term, perfectly describes Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), America's first important modern female playwright, winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and one of the most respected novelists and short story writers of her time. In her life she explored uncharted regions and in her writing she created intrepid female characters who did the same. Born in Davenport, Iowa, just as America entered its second century, Glaspell took her cue from her pioneering grandparents as she sought to rekindle their spirit of adventure and purpose. A journalist by age eighteen, she worked her way through university as a reporter. In 1913 she and her husband, fellow Davenport iconoclast George Cram "Jig" Cook, joined the migration of writers from the Midwest to Greenwich Village, and were at the center of the first American avant-garde. Glaspell was a charter member of its important institutions--the Provincetown Players, the Liberal Club, Heterodoxy--and a close friend of John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse, Max Eastman, Sinclair Lewis, and Eugene O'Neill. Her plays launched an indigenous American drama and addressed pressing topics such as women's suffrage, birth control, female sexuality, marriage equality, socialism, and pacifism. Although frail and ethereal, Glaspell was a determined rebel throughout her life, willing to speak out for those causes in which she believed and willing to risk societal approbation when she found love. At the age of thirty-five, she scandalized staid Davenport when she began an affair with then-married Jig Cook. After his death in Delphi, where they lived for two years, she began an eight-year relationship with a man seventeen years her junior. Youthful in appearance, she remained youthful and undaunted in spirit. "Out there--lies all that's not been touched--lies life that waits," Claire Archer says in The Verge, Glaspell's most experimental play. The biography of Susan Glaspell is the exciting story of her personal exploration of the same terrain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195354096
• Artikelnr.: 38137015

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