Big Love draws most heavily from one of the oldest surviving plays from the western world,

The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus.

 

 

 

 

 

Big Love is also inspired by, or takes texts from, Klaus Theweleit, Leo Buscaglia, Gerald G. Jampolsky, Valerie Solanus, Maureen Stanton, Lisa St Aubin de Teran, Sei Shonagon, Eleanor Clark, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, and Kate Simon, among others.

 

Please click on the underlined names/titles to learn where to access source materials and learn information about each author.

 

• Klaus Theweleit -A German sociologist and writer. Object- Choice: (All You Need Is Love...: On Mating Strategies & A Fragment of a Freud Biography (1987) and Male Fantasies (1994)

• Leo Buscaglia- Also known as ‘Dr. Love.’ A motivational speaker and author. Loving Each Other (1984), Living, Loving, Learning (1985), Personhood (1986), Bus 9 to Paradise (1987), The Way of the Bull (1973), Love (1972)

• Gerald G. Jampolsky M.D.-Speaker, writer and doctor with expertise in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Love is Letting Go of Fear(1974)

• Valerie Solanus –American radical feminist writer, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol’s manager in 1968. SCUM Manifesto (1967)

• Maureen Stanton-American essayist. Wandering Blood(1999)

• Lisa St Aubin de Teran- An English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist. A Valley in Italy, 1995

• Sei Shonagon-A Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period The Pillow Book (17th Century)

• Eleanor Clark- An American writer and travel essayist. Rome and a Villa (1950)

• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison-An American journalist, essayist and memoirist. Italian Days(1989), The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands (1991)

• Kate Simon- A memoirist and travel writer. Italy: The Places In Between (1970)