Between the O'Neills

This is a review of two works in the "Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama" series. The first work, Katie Johnson's Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900–1920 is about a little-known category of plays in which women are represented as prostitutes or some other type of "fallen women." The second work, Brenda Murphy's The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity, is a history of the influential early twentieth-century drama group with a particular emphasis on the manner in which the group contributed to the emerging American modernism.