The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) Book

The Provincetown Players, a consciously literary and experimental theatre group that flourished in Greenwich Village from 1916-1922, is known for discovering and nurturing such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. This book places the Provincetown Players in the context of American culture in the period around World War I, particularly the developing culture of modernism, by detailing the art and thought of the Players, who included some of the most significant modernist poets and artists of their time and place.Read More

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    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, Brenda Murphy reveals the central contribution of the group of poets around Alfred Kreymborg's Others magazine, including William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, and such modernist artists as Marguerite and William Zorach, Charles Demuth and Bror Nordfeldt, to the Players' developing modernist aesthetics.

  • 0521838525
  • 9780521838528
  • Brenda Murphy
  • 1 December 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 302
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