Eugene O'Neill is one of America's most celebrated playwrights, but relatively few Americans know the name of the man who essentially gave O' Neill his first chance at greatness: George Cram, Jig Cook, one of America's most colorful and original thinkers and the founder of the Provincetown Players, the first company to stage O'Neill. Cook's story, with all its hopes, dreams, and disappointments, is told in The Road to the Temple.
First published in 1927 in the United States and reprinted in 1941, this biography is the work of Cook's third wife, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Susan...
Eugene O'Neill is one of America's most celebrated playwrights, but relatively few Americans know the name of the man who essentially gave O' Neill hi...
One of the preeminent authors of the early twentieth century, Susan Glaspell (1876 1948) produced fourteen ground-breaking plays, nine novels, and more than fifty short stories. Her work was popular and critically acclaimed during her lifetime, with her novels appearing on best-seller lists and her stories published in major magazines and in "The Best American Short Stories." Many of her short works display her remarkable abilities as a humorist, satirizing cultural conventions and the narrowness of small-town life. And yet they also evoke serious questions relevant as much today as during...
One of the preeminent authors of the early twentieth century, Susan Glaspell (1876 1948) produced fourteen ground-breaking plays, nine novels, and ...
