The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity.(Book review)

Theatre History Studies | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. By Brenda Murphy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix + 28a pp. $85.00 cloth.

Brenda Murphy's new book is a welcome and sophisticated addition to the scholarship on the Provincetown Players. By tying the group into the culture of modernity, Murphy skillfully expands on observations made by others, including my 1982 Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players and Cheryl Black's 2002 The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922, as well as in biographies of Susan Glaspell by Barbara Ozieblo and Linda Ben-Zvi.

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