Plays by Susan Glaspell (British and American Playwrights) - Softcover

Glaspell, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521312043 ISBN 13: 9780521312042

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

A cofounder of the Provincetown Players and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) 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. And though Inheritors (1921) is far more conventional, it nonetheless questions the nature and reality of American pieties. Long known for a single play, Glaspell now emerges as a significant figure in the history of American drama, a woman of genuine creative innovation.

About this title

Book Description:

Four long-neglected works: Trifles (1916): The Outside (1917); The Verge (1921): and Inheritors (1921) reveal the creative innovation of one of the first women playwrights in the history of American drama.

From the Back Cover:

Long known for only a single play, with this collection, Susan Glaspell now emerges as a significant figure in the history of American drama, a woman of genuine creative daring.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0521312043
• ISBN 13: 9780521312042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 161
• Editor: Bigsby C. W. E.