Marcia Noe, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre

In his 1920 novel, Moon-Calf, Floyd Dell describes Port Royal, a thinly veiled version of Davenport, Iowa, as "a rebellious place.It had been founded so, by men who were different than others" (qtd.on 52).In Three Midwestern Playwrights, Marcia Noe implies that Davenport is both the quintessential Midwestern town and the least Midwestern of Midwestern locales.Only a place so idiosyncratic could nurture a trio of broad-minded, brilliant modern thinkers and artists like Dell, George Cram Cook, and