Four classic plays which are committed to developing deep, sympathetic characters, and to understanding 'life' in its complexity. Includes the following plays: Trifles, The Outside, The Verge, Inheritors.
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.
The first complete collection of the works of American playwright Susan Glaspell, this book includes all of the Pulitzer Prize winner's works: Suppressed Desires, Trifles, The People, The Outside, Woman's Honor, Close the Book, Tickless ...
Literary Contexts in Plays: Susan Glaspell's 'Trifles'.
For the first time, this volume brings together essays by feminist, Americanist, and theater scholars who apply a variety of sophisticated critical approaches to Susan Glaspell’s entire oeuvre.
She was one of the first playwrights. Though long neglected, the four works compiled in this key edition reveal the profound modernity of her concerns.
Often set in her native Iowa, these semi-autobiographical tales frequently address contemporary issues, such as gender, ethics, and dissent, while featuring deep, sympathetic characters who make principled stands.
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Susan Glaspell's 'Trifles' is as relevant today as when it was first performed. It is a masterpiece of brevity, full of tension, and an incisive yet subtle attack on patriarchal society: an early feminist masterpiece.
Often set in her native Midwest, these semi-autobiographical tales frequently address contemporary social issues, such as gender, ethics and dissent, while featuring deep, sympathetic characters who make principled stands.
John Reed, quoted in Rosenstone, Romantic Rebel, 239. Heaton Vorse, interview by the author, Provincetown, July 1987. Eastman, Enjoyment of Life, 566. Louise Bryant to John Reed, 9 June 1916, bMS Am 1091(240), HLHU. 8.