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Many of the resources listed here are also referred to in the descriptions of the plays and in the biographies on this site, and are the full citations for the majority of the footnotes.

Provincetown Players

Black, Cheryl. The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 2002.

Deutsch, Helen, and Stella Hanau. The Provincetown:  A Story of the Theatre. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1931.

Egan, Leona Rust. Provincetown As a Stage: Provincetown, The Provincetown Players, and the Discovery of Eugene O’Neill. Orleans: Parnassus Imprints, 1994.

Kennedy, Jeffery. The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Playhouse, 1918-1922. Diss., New York University, 2007. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2007.

Kenton, Edna. The Provincetown Players and the Playwright’s Theatre, 1915-1922. Ed. by Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004.

Murphy, Brenda. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. New York: Cambridge U Press, 2005.

Ozieblo, Barbara, ed. The Provincetown Players, A Choice of the Shorter Works. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

Rudnick, Lois and Adele Heller, eds. 1915, the Cultural Moment. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U Press, 1991.

Sarlos, Robert Karoly. Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players, Theatre in Ferment. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.

Vilhauer, William Warren. A History and Evaluation of the Provincetown Players. Diss., State U of Iowa, 1965. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1965.

About Playwrights - Listed Alphabetically

Djuna Barnes
Field, Andres. Djuna, the Life and Times of Djuna Barnes. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1983.

Herring, Phillip. Djuna, the Live and Work of Djuna Barnes.  New York: Viking, 1995.

Neith Boyce
DeBoer-Langworthy, Carol, ed. The Modern World of Neith Boyce, Autobiography and Diaries. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Louise Bryant
Dearborn, Mary V. Queen of Bohemia, the Life of Louise Bryant. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1996.

Gelb, Barbara. So Short a Time, A Biography of John Reed and Louise Bryant. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1973.

George Cram Cook
Cook, George Cram. Greek Coins, Poems and Memorabilia. New York: George H. Doran, 1925.

Glaspell, Susan. The Road to the Temple. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1927.

Kemper, Susan C.  The Novels, Plays, and Poetry of George Cram Cook, Founder of the Provincetown Players. Diss. Bowling Green State U, 1982. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1982.

Tanselle, Thomas. “George Cram Cook and the Poetry of Living” from Books at Iowa 24, April 1976. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/tanselle.htm

Floyd Dell
Clayton, Douglas. Floyd Dell, the Life and Times of an American Rebel. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994.

Dell, Floyd. Homecoming, an Autobiography. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1933.

Charles Demuth
Farnham, Emily. Charles Demuth, Behind a Laughing Mask. Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

Haskell, Barbara. Charles Demuth. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.

Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell Society: http://blogs.shu.edu/glaspellsociety/

Ben-Zvi, Linda. Susan Glaspell, Her Life and Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Ben-Zvi, Linda, ed. Susan Glaspell, Essays on Her Theatre and Fiction. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1995.

Carpentier, Martha C. The Major Novels of Susan Glaspell. Gainesville, FL: U Press of Florida, 2001.

Gainor, J. Ellen. Susan Glaspell in Context, American Theatre,Culture, and Politics, 1915-48. 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Hinz-Bode, Kristina. Susan Glaspell and the Anxiety of Expression, Language and Isolation in the Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2006.

Makowsky, Veronica. Susan Glaspell’s Century of Women, A Critical Interpretation of Her Work. New York: Oxford U Press, 1993.

Noe, Marcia. Susan Glaspell, Voice from the Heartland. Macomb, IL: Western Illinois University Press, 1983.

Ozieblo, Barbara. Susan Glaspell, a Critical Biography. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Papke, Mary E.  Susan Glaspell, a Research and Production Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Hutchins Hapgood
Hapgood, Hutchins. A Victorian in the Modern World. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1939.

Robert Edmond Jones
Black, Eugene Robert. Robert Edmond Jones: Poetic Artist of the New Stagecraft. Diss. U of Wisconsin, 1956. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1956.

Pendleton, Ralph, ed. The Theatre of Robert Edmond Jones. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1958.

Harry Kemp
Brevda, William. Harry Kemp, the Last Bohemian. Lewisburg: Bucknell U Press, 1986.

Alfred Kreymborg
Kreymborg, Alfred. Troubadour, an American Autobiography. 1925; New York: Sagamore Press, 1957.

Lawrence Langner
Langner, Lawrence. The Magic Curtain. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1951.

Eugene O’Neill
eONeill.com:  an electronic Eugene O’Neill archive:  http://www.eoneill.com

Black, Stephen. Eugene O’Neill, Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. New Haven, CT: Yale U Press, 1999.

Bogard, Travis. Contours in Time, the Plays of Eugene O’Neill. New York: Oxford U Press, 1972.

Boulton, Agnes. Part of a Long Story; Eugene O'Neill as a Young Man in Love.London: P. Davies, 1958.

Clark, Barrett H. Eugene O’Neill, the Man and His Plays 1926. New York: Dover, 1947.

Gelb, Arthur and Barbara. O’Neill. 1962.New York: Harper and Row, 1987.

Gelb, Arthur and Barbara. O’Neill, Life with Monte Cristo. New York: Applause Books, 2000.

Liu, Haiping, and Lowell Swortzell, eds. Eugene O’Neill in China, an International Centenary Celebration. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Manheim, Michael. Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Sheaffer, Louis. O’Neill, Son and Artist, Volume II. 1973. New York: Copper Square Press, 2002.

Sheaffer, Louis. O’Neill, Son and Playwright, Volume I. 1968. New York: Copper Square Press, 2002.

John Reed
Hicks. Granville. John Reed, the Making of a Revolutionary. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

Homberger, Eric. John Reed. Manchester, England: Manchester U Press, 1990.

Rosenstone, Robert A. Romantic Revolutionary. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Brittan, Norman. Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967.

Cheney, Anne.  Millay in Greenwich Village. U of Alabama Press, 1975.

Epstein, Daniel Mark. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2001.

Gould, Jean. The Poet and Her Book; a Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay.New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969.

Gurko, Miriam. Restless Spirit, the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1962.

Mary Heaton Vorse
Garrison, Dee. Mary Heaton Vorse : the Life of an American Insurgent. Philadelphia: Temple University, 1989.

Vorse, Mary Heaton. A Footnote to Folly: Reminiscences of Mary Heaton Vorse. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935.

Vorse, Mary Heaton. Time and the Town. New York: The Dial Press, 1942.

William Carlos Williams
Williams, William Carlos. The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams. 1951. New York: New Directions, 1967.

William Zorach
Zorach, William.  Art is My Life, The Autobiography of William Zorach.  Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1967.

Greenwich Village during the Modern Period

Chapin, Anna Alice. Greenwich Village. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917.

Churchill, Allan. The Improper Bohemians; a re-creation of Greenwich Village in its heyday. New York: Dutton, 1959.

Parry, Albert. Garrets and Pretenders, a History of Bohemianism in America, Revised ed. 1933; New York, Dover Publications, 1960.

Richwine, Keith Norton. The Liberal Club: Bohemia and the Resurgence in Greenwich Village, 1912-1918. Diss. University of Pennsylvania, 1968. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1969.