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Zusatztext "A much welcome and most necessary biography. We don't know nearly enough about the pioneering writer Susan Glaspell; her story seems to have been passed over. Linda Ben Zvi's engaging and informative work restores this fine writer to her rightful place at the center of the American stage and makes us Glaspell's eager and avid audience."--Suzan-Lori Parks, Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Informationen zum Autor Linda Ben-Zvi is Professor of Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University and Professor Emerita of English and Theatre at Colorado State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
