MARGO JONES: A LIFE IN THE THEATRE.
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Title
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MARGO JONES: A LIFE IN THE THEATRE.
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Identifier
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AAI8222956
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identifier
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8222956
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Creator
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LARSEN, JUNE BENNETT.
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Contributor
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Dr. Glenn Loney | Dr. Bertram Joseph
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater
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Abstract
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Margo Jones emerged in the mid-twentieth century as one of few female directors to attain recognition in the American theatre. Her concentration was focussed on the founding of a professional regional theatre in Dallas, Texas, in which she would present new plays in arena staging. Daily, she spent long hours reading new playscripts and, while she also presented classics at her theatre, her greatest interest was in discovering new, unproduced playwrights. Her dedication resulted in her pioneering in the modern American regional theatre movement and, therefore, the decentralization of American theatre, and in creating the opportunities it holds for burgeoning American dramatists.;The purpose of this biography is to explore how Margo Jones was able to accomplish what she did; what forces, events, traumas, and personalities from her early life proved vital influences on her professional success. How was a young woman in the nineteen-twenties and thirties from a small East Texas town able to combine her strengths and weaknesses to win a national reputation in the theatre? It is the attempt to this study to answer this question.;Locale seemed the most suitable organizational method for reconstructing Margo Jones' life, and succeeding chapters are thus divided. The first chapter, for example, deals with hereditary, environmental, social, and cultural influences on Jones' early life in Livingston, Texas. The text includes a preface and introduction, six chapters and an epilogue, illustrations, and an appendix.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Theatre
