Susan Glaspell : her life and times

著者

書誌事項

Susan Glaspell : her life and times

Linda Ben-Zvi

Oxford University Press, 2005

  • : pbk

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全3件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Bibliography: p. [435]-444

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780195115062

内容説明

"Venturesome feminist," historian Nancy Cott's term, perfectly describes playwright and novelist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), who explored uncharted regions and opened up new areas for women who followed. 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 news reporter and later became one of the leading novelists of the period. In 1913 she and her husband, fellow Davenport iconoclast George Cram "Jig" Cook, joined the migration of writers from the Midwest to Greenwich Village, where they established the first American avant-garde. Glaspell became co-founder of many 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. She and O'Neill wrote the plays that launched modern American drama, hers addressing such pressing topics as suffrage, birth control, female sexuality, marriage equality, socialism, and pacifism. Although frail and ethereal, Glaspell was a determined rebel throughout her life, scandalizing staid Davenport when at age thirty-five she began an affair with then-married Jig. She lived a year in Paris, spent two in Delphi with Jig, and after his death began an eight-year affair with a man seventeen years her junior. Youthful in appearance, she remained youthful in her approach to life. "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.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780195313239

内容説明

Trifles - a play exploring what happens when women unite against forces that deny them a voice and identity-has become an international classic, as powerful and relevant today as it was in the summer of 1916, when it was first staged by vacationing friends in a converted fishing wharf in Provincetown,Massachusetts. This biography is the story of its author, Susan Glaspell, and the forces that propelled her from her Midwest birthplace in Davenport, Iowa to Greenwich Village during its glory days, where she established herself as a central figure in the avant-garde community and became the first modern American woman playwright. Glaspell's life is a feminist tale of pioneering in which she broke new ground for women. A journalist by age eighteen, she worked her way through university as a news reporter and became a leading novelist of the period. A co-founder of many of Greenwich Village's important avant-garde institutions, she was a close friend of its leading figures, including Eugene O'Neill. She and O'Neill were equally credited with launching a new type of indigenous drama, hers addressing such pressing topics as suffrage, birth control, female sexuality, marriage equality, socialism, and pacifism. In 1931 she won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. "Out there - lies all that's not been touched - lies life that waits," Claire Archer says in The Verge, Glaspell's most experimental play. This biography is the exciting and inspiring story of Glaspell's personal exploration of the same terrain

目次

  • 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

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ