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Plays by Susan Glaspell

Plays by Susan Glaspell

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Part of British and American Playwrights

  • Date Published: July 1987
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521312042

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  • A cofounder of the Provincetown Players - the group that acted as midwife to the American theatre - Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her early plays were in many respects as challenging and original as those with which O'Neill made his debut. Her concern with language as subject, with character as an expression of social role, with plot as a mechanism that may ensnare rather than locate the self, mode her very much a modern. In Trifles (1916) she developed a feminist critique of social role. In The Outside (1917) she staged a debate between the life force and a perverse celebration of death. In both plays silence becomes an eloquent expression of meaning. The Verge (1921) is an experimental work of considerable proportions, more daring in many ways than anything attempted by O'Neill. Though Inheritors (1921) is far more conventional it touched a contemporary nerve, questioning the nature and reality of American pieties. Long known only for a single play, Susan Glaspell now emerges as a significant figure in the history of American drama, a woman of genuine creative daring.

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    • Date Published: July 1987
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521312042
    • length: 170 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 153 x 13 mm
    • weight: 0.252kg
    • contains: 1 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Biographical record
    Trifles
    The Outside
    The Verge
    Inheritors
    The plays of Susan Glaspell
    Select bibliography.

  • Author

    Susan Glaspell

    Editor

    C. W. E. Bigsby

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