Introduction : Blackhawk's land -- Midwest beginnings, 1876-1907. A town springs up -- Families in fact and fiction -- Society girls -- Delphic days -- The genesis of Trifles -- Chicago --Susan and Jig, 1907-13. A Greek out of time -- The Monist society -- Letters to Mollie -- Travel at home and abroad -- "Though stone be broken" -- Staging area for the future -- Interlude 1 : Greenwich Village, 1913 : the joyous season. The Provincetown players, 1914-22. A home by the sea -- War and peace -- A theatre on a wharf -- Summer 1916, two playwrights -- A new kind of theatre -- Fire from heaven on MacDougal Street -- "Here Pegasus was hitched" -- Inheritors -- The verge and beyond -- The end of the dream -- Interlude 2 : Delphi, 1922-24 : the road to the temple. Going on, 1924-48. Picking up the pieces -- Novel times -- Alison's house -- Break up -- The federal theatre project -- A different war -- Completing the circle.
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