Plays by Susan Glaspell - Softcover

Glaspell, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605978892 ISBN 13: 9781605978895

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2008

Synopsis

Susan Glaspell was an American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her plays. Her writing is known for developing sympathetic characters and understanding the complexities of life. Her interest in philosophy and religion is seen in her works. The four plays in this collection are; The Outside, Trifles, The Verge and Inheritors.

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Book Description:

A cofounder of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her concern with language as subject, character as an expression of social role, plot as a mechanism that may ensnare rather than locate the self, mode her a modern.

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605978892
• ISBN 13: 9781605978895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172