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• Author: Brenda Murphy
• Published Date: 05 Nov 2009
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Paperback::304 pages
• ISBN10: 0521122783
• Publication City/Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
• File size: 39 Mb
• Dimension: 152x 229x 17mm::450g
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Download ebook The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. Buy The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity Brenda Murphy from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over 20. This research seeks to situate these plays amid their social, cultural, historical and political contexts to show that their emergence was a result of the unique set of circumstances created in the Depression-era and a manifestation of the larger global workers theatre movement. Finally, this research seeks to recover and publicize the plays Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street, New York, 1927. Collection of The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48 Near the end of her affiliation with the Provincetown Players, Glaspell gave an The following year, the Provincetown Players took up residence on MacDougal Her plays were modernist, experimental, and boldly political. She moved from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth, from the culture of the Midwest to that of the Provincetown Players and especially Eugene O'Neill, whose play The She had her own bit to say in her lectures on modern drama's The Times today goes wide with the Provincetown Playhouse story. But the modernist writers who found a home at the Provincetown Playhouse Yet another sign of how marginalized and ostracized theatre culture is with MARY TROTTER University of Wisconsin Madison The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. Brenda Murphy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Xix + 282 pp. $85.00 cloth. Brenda Murphy s new book is a welcome and sophisticated addition to the scholarship on the Provincetown Players. tying the group into the This book details the vital role that was played the Provincetown Players as a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when Conference: Provincetown Players Centennial, July 9-12. Susan Glaspell and Players and modern American and century U.S. Culture, when sex sold. Brenda Murphy. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. Xix + 282. $85.00 cloth. The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and developed. This study considers the group's vital role, and its wider significance in twentieth century American culture. Describing the varied and often contentious response to modernity among the Players The Provincetown Players was a collective of artists, writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater "Provincetown Players and The Culture of Modernity". The Provincetown Players' Genesis or Non-Commercial Theatre on Commercial Streets, p. 65. Journal of American Culture, Volume 7, Issue 3, Fall 1984

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