American Drama, General & Miscellaneous Drama

Plays by Susan Glaspell

Name: Plays by Susan Glaspell
Author: Susan Glaspell
ISBN: 9781434415196

by Susan Glaspell

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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.

Synopsis

Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, bestselling novelist, and a founding member of the Provincetown Players. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project. This volume includes Trifles (1916), dealing with the death of a man and the arrest of his wife on suspicion of murder; Bernice (1919), which reveals the character of a dead woman through her effect upon her family and friends; and The Inheritors (1921), dealing with a Midwestern college founded by two liberal families whose third generations clash because one remains liberal but the other has become conservative.

About the Author, Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer and poet. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.