Plays

by Susan Glaspell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496163219
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/06/2014
Pages:	94
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 - July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theater company. During the Great Depression she served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.

A prolific writer, Glaspell is known to have composed nine novels, fifteen plays, over fifty short stories and one biography. 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.

A best-selling author in her own time, Glaspell's stories fell out of print after her death, during which time she was remembered primarily for discovering Eugene O'Neill. Critical reassessment has led to renewed interest in her career, and she is today recognized as a pioneering feminist writer and America's first important modern female playwright. Her one-act play Trifles (1916) is frequently cited as one of the greatest works of American theater, though she remains, according to Britain's leading theatre critic Michael Billington, "American drama's best kept secret."