Plays / by Susan Glaspell ; edited with an introduction by C.W.E. Bigsby ; additional textual notes by Christine Dymkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948.

Contributor:

Bigsby, C. W. E.

Dymkowski, Christine, 1950-

Series:

British and American playwrights, 1750-1920

British and American playwrights, 1750-1920.

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

vii, 161 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1987]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Trifles

The outside

The verge

Inheritors.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 159-161.

ISBN:

052130945X

0521312043

OCLC:

15016036