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- Title
Stages of Thought: Emerson, Maeterlinck, Glaspell.
- Authors
Biers, Katherine
- Abstract
This article examines the dramatic Platonism of Susan Glaspell in order to establish early-twentieth-century American drama as an integral component in a transatlantic movement of ideas. The essay contends that the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson permeate Glaspell's plays, by way of Maurice Maeterlinck, whose theatrical practices Glaspell adopted. Maeterlinck sought to stage Emerson's concept of the "over-soul" in his development of static theatre. Glaspell, in turn, refigured Maeterlinck's dramatic techniques and Emerson's philosophical concepts as both uniquely modernist, American drama and ground-breaking feminist theatre.
- Subjects
GLASPELL, Susan, 1876-1948; MAETERLINCK, Maurice, 1862-1949; EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; PLATONISTS in literature; TRANSCENDENTALISM (Philosophy); SYMBOLISM; AMERICAN drama; FEMINIST theater; TRANSCENDENTALISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Modern Drama, 2013, Vol 56, Issue 4, p457
- ISSN
0026-7694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/md.S90