Four Plays by Susan Glaspell: Trifles, The outside, The verge, Inheritors

Home / Categories / Literature /

Condition: Used - Good

Product details

Condition Note: pen, pencil marks on some pages, few words on the edges are cut.

About the Book:

Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 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.

Author: Susan Keating Glaspell
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781976435102

Categories

Cart

Account

Four Plays by Susan Glaspell: Trifles, The outside, The verge, Inheritors