Plays
By Susan Glaspell
10 May, 2019
A co-founder of the Provincetown Players and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Glaspell was one of the first female playwrights. Although long neglected, the four plays collected in this critical edition reveal the thoroughly modern nature
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A co-founder of the Provincetown Players and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Glaspell 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. Less