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Overview
"Eugene O'Neill is a celebrated playwright, but relatively few Americans know the name of the man who gave O'Neill his first chance at greatness: George Cram "Jig" Cook, 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 the United States in 1927, this biography is the work of Cook's third wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. It traces Cook's lifelong search for self, from his birthplace in Davenport, Iowa, to the antiquity of Greece. Into her narrative, Glaspell weaves many excerpts from Jig's own work. In addition, she offers portraits of the American Midwest in the late nineteenth century and of Greenwich Village between 1910 and 1920, as well as a lyrical account of the life she and Jig lived in Greece, where Jig died on January 11, 1924.Synopsis
"Eugene O'Neill is a celebrated playwright, but relatively few Americans know the name of the man who gave O'Neill his first chance at greatness: George Cram "Jig" Cook, 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 the United States in 1927, this biography is the work of Cook's third wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. It traces Cook's lifelong search for self, from his birthplace in Davenport, Iowa, to the antiquity of Greece. Into her narrative, Glaspell weaves many excerpts from Jig's own work. In addition, she offers portraits of the American Midwest in the late nineteenth century and of Greenwich Village between 1910 and 1920, as well as a lyrical account of the life she and Jig lived in Greece, where Jig died on January 11, 1924.