The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village
from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and developed. This
study considers the group's vital role, and its wider significance in twentieth
century American culture. Describing the varied and often contentious response
to modernity among the Players, Brenda Murphy reveals the central contribution
of the group of poets around Alfred Kreymborg's Others magazine, including
William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, and such
modernist artists as Marguerite and William Zorach, Charles Demuth and Bror
Nordfeldt, to the Players' developing modernist aesthetics.