Three Midwestern Playwrights

How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre

Marcia Noe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06183-6 (ISBN)

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In the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs.

The philosophical and political orientations of Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell generated a theatre practice marked by experimentalism, collaboration, leftist cultural critique, rebellion, liberation, and community engagement. In Three Midwestern Playwrights, Marcia Noe situates the origin of the Provincetown aesthetic in Davenport, Iowa, a Mississippi River town. All three playwrights recognized that radical politics sometimes begat radical chic, and several of their plays satirize the faddish elements of the progressive political, social, and cultural movements they were active in.

Three Midwestern Playwrights brings the players to life and deftly illustrates how Dell, Cook, and Glaspell joined early 20th-century midwestern radicalism with East Coast avant-garde drama, resulting in a fresh and energetic contribution to American theatre.

Marcia Noe is author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland and over 20 other publications on this Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. Noe edits the academic journal MidAmerica for the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and is Professor of English and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Three Midwestern Playwrights and the Provincetown Players
1. Three Midwestern Playwrights Discover the New
2. Three Midwestern Playwrights Arrive in a Romantic and Miraculous City
3. Floyd Dell Embraces Feminism in Port Royal
4. George Cram Cook Runs for Congress in the Red City of Iowa
5. Susan Glaspell Fights for Free Speech in Freeport
6. Three Midwestern Playwrights Found a Theatre Company
Conclusion: Three Midwestern Playwrights Venture Beyond P-Town
Works Cited and Consulted
George Cram Cook: A Classified Primary Source Bibliography compiled by Tyler Preston
Susan Glaspell: A Classified Primary Source Bibliography compiled by Tyler Preston
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	13 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-253-06183-0 / 0253061830
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06183-6 / 9780253061836
Zustand	Neuware