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By Susan Glaspell

2019-05-10 20:18:11

A co-founder of the Provincetown Players and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Glaspell was one of the first female playwrights. Although long neglected, the four plays collected in this critical edition reveal the thoroughly modern nature ... Read more
A co-founder of the Provincetown Players and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Glaspell was one of the first female playwrights. Although long neglected, the four plays collected in this critical edition reveal the thoroughly modern nature of her concerns. Trifles (1916) develops a feminist critique of social role, while The Outside (1917) stages a debate between the life force and a perverse celebration of death. In The Verge (1921), Glaspell presented an experimental work of considerable proportions, more daring in many ways than anything attempted by O'Neill. Less

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File size140.919 KB
Print pages146
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2015-09-19
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781533015402
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Susan Glaspell
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Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist, and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the firs...

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