Abstract

A newly discovered three-act play by Hemingway intimate Jane Mason, believed to be the model for Margot Macomber in Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." The play involves the love intrigues of rich Americans big game hunting in Africa in the mid-1930s, and offers a view of adultery, sexual politics, gender roles, fundamental values, and the hunt for happiness. Written in the vein of social satire, Safari includes thinly disguised Hemingway acquaintances such as Mason herself, her lover Richard Cooper, white hunter Philip Percival, Bror von Blixen, and Isak Dinesen.

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