A pioneering feminist playwright and referred to as "American drama's best-kept secret," Susan Glaspell was a top selling writer in her own time, the founder of the first modern American theatre company, and a leader in Depression era theatrical productions. She is also credited with having discovered playwright Eugene O'Neill. Four of Glaspell's plays: Trifles, The Outside, The Verge, and Inheritors are included in this volume.
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 ...
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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 ...
The collection features wide-ranging discussions of Glaspell's fiction, plays, and non-fiction in both historical and contemporary critical contexts, and demonstrates the significance of Glaspell's writing and other professional activities ...
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.
The first book-length critical assessment of American playwright and fiction writer Susan Glaspell
Presents the life and works of American journalist, novelist, and playwright Susan Keating Glaspell. Includes a chronology.
And, at long last, thefirst collection of Treadwell's selected writings in journalism, fictionand drama was published in 2006 (Dickey and LópezRodríguez 2006). 6.1 Sophie Treadwell. Photo: by Sherril Schell. Reprinted with permission.
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.