Title
History Looks at Itself: On the Road with the Mailers and George Plimpton
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
On the stage production of “Zelda, Scott, and Ernest: A Dramatic Dialogue,” based on their letters and writings. Shainberg provides the play’s compositional and performance history along with explanatory notes and background material connecting the six American icons: George Plimpton as Scott Fitzgerald, Norris Church Mailer as Zelda Fitzgerald, and Norman Mailer as Hemingway.
Published in
Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest
Date
2010
Pages
159-180
COinS
Citation
Shainberg, Lawrence. “History Looks at Itself: On the Road with the Mailers and George Plimpton.” In Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest, edited by John Whalen-Bridge, 159-80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.