Road to the Temple

The late Susan Glaspell was a leading modern American woman playwright. Linda Ben-Zvi is professor Emerita from Tel Aviv University and Colorado State University in theatre and English.

“polished and poetic”—The Eugene O’Neill Review.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Light of Imagination by Linda Ben-Zvi      Preface to the 1927 Edition      Preface to the 1941 Edition      1. The Unintended Beauty      2. Who Is an Honest Man?      3. A Log-cabin      4. Calendars      5. Pop-eye Wilson      6. The Silence of Noon      7. Wordsworth on the Mississippi      8. Harvard, ’93      9. John Alden      10. Black Hawk’s Watch Tower      11. Heidelberg      12. His Friend Mrs. Y_____      13. Instructor Cook      14. Sappho in Iowa City      15. Dream Cities      16. Kipling to Corporal Cook      17. “Unsent”      18. “The Faggot and the Flame”      19. The Truck-Farmer      20. Life Breaks a Shell      21. The Locked Door      22. World of Symbols      23. Behold the Sun!      24. “The Needle and the North”      25. The Monist Society      26. The Greenhouse Speaks      27. Though Stone Be Broken      28. Chicago      29. Our House in Provincetown      30. The Rhythm of the Days      31. The Old Wharf      32. Fire from Heaven      33. Certain Women      34. Nezer      35. Paths to “The Spring”      36. The Beloved Community      37. The Parthenon!      38. Making New Friends      39. Delphi      40. The Music of the Flocks      41. The Bird and the Gods      42. Shepherds and Bandits      43. A Winter in Athens      44. TòPuppy      45. The Brook Runs Red      46. Our Days at Kalania      47. Building Walls      48. “At Fifty I Ask God”      49. The Play Begins      50. By an Ancient Threshing-Floor      51. The Play Continues      52. Death in Delphi      53. “The Women Spin—The Sheep Pass”      Notes on the Text      Selected Bibliography by Linda Ben-Zvi      Index