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Plays by Susan Glaspell

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Plays by Susan Glaspell Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist, and journalist. 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 Iowa, these semi-autobiographical tales frequently address contemporary 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 novels and plays 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.

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Susan Glaspell

The Complete Plays

By: Susan Glaspell,Linda Ben-Zvi,J. Ellen Gainor

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Susan Glaspell

The Complete Plays

By: Susan Glaspell,Linda Ben-Zvi,J. Ellen Gainor

The first complete collection of the works of American playwright Susan Glaspell, this book includes all of the Pulitzer Prize winner's one-act works. The book also features Glaspell's full-length plays some of which are published here for the first time

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0786434325

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Plays by Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell

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A cofounder of the Provincetown Players - the group that acted as midwife to the American theatre - Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her early plays were in many respects as challenging and original as those with which O'Neill made his debut. Her concern with language as subject, with character as an expression of social role, with plot as a mechanism that may ensnare rather than locate the self, mode her very much a modern. In Trifles (1916) she developed a feminist critique of social role. In The Outside (1917) she staged a debate between the life force and a perverse celebration of death. In both plays silence becomes an eloquent expression of meaning. The Verge (1921) is an experimental work of considerable proportions, more daring in many ways than anything attempted by O'Neill. Though Inheritors (1921) is far more conventional it touched a contemporary nerve, questioning the nature and reality of American pieties. Long known only for a single play, Susan Glaspell now emerges as a significant figure in the history of American drama, a woman of genuine creative daring.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521312043

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The Glory Of The Conquered The Story Of A Great Love

By: Susan Glaspell

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The Glory Of The Conquered The Story Of A Great Love

By: Susan Glaspell

“The Glory Of The Conquered" is an ancient historical fiction story book written by Susan Glaspell. Susan Glaspell's artwork, "The Glory Of The Conquered," is an extraordinary story set in competition to the backdrop of historical sports, exploring subjects of affection, ambition, and sacrifice. The novel is ready at some point of a vital length in American records, presenting readers with a view into the social, political, and cultural landscape of the time. Glaspell masterfully develops her characters, engrossing readers with their lives and emotions at the same time as they confront their personal personal horrible conditions and society conventions. At the coronary heart of the paintings is an excessive romantic story prominent via intensity, emotion, and intricacy, set in the direction of the backdrop of greater facts interest. "The Glory of the Conquered" exemplifies Susan Glaspell's literary talents, growing an indelible affect on readers with its amazing characters, dramatic storytelling, and timeless troubles of love and resilience. This creator's painstaking have a study and hobby to detail supply the historical environment to lifestyles, introducing readers to the elements of hobby, sounds, and sensations of the time period in question.

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9361423576

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7 Best Short Stories by Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell

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7 Best Short Stories by Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell was highly regarded in her time, and was well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Her short stories were regularly printed in the era's top periodicals, and her New York Times obituary states that she was "one of the nation's most widely-read novelists." With major achievements in drama, novel, and short fiction, Glaspell is often cited as a "prime example" of an overlooked female writer deserving canonization. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: His Smile "Government Goat" A Jury of Her Peers The Anarchist: His Dog "One of Those Impossible Americans" At Twilight From A to Z

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8577770524

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Essential Novelists - Susan Glaspell

the complexity of womanhood

By: August Nemo,Susan Glaspell

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Essential Novelists - Susan Glaspell

the complexity of womanhood

By: August Nemo,Susan Glaspell

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Susan Glaspell which are Fidelity and The Visioning. Susan Glaspell was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. In the early 21st century Glaspell is today recognized as a pioneering feminist writer and America's first important modern female playwright. According to Britain's leading theatre critic, Michael Billington, she remains, "American drama's best-kept secret." Novels selected for this book: - Fidelity - The Visioning This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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8577771539

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Plays by Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell

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Her America

“A Jury of Her Peers” and Other Stories

By: Susan Glaspell

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Her America

“A Jury of Her Peers” and Other Stories

By: Susan Glaspell

One of the preeminent authors of the early twentieth century, Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) produced fourteen ground-breaking plays, nine novels, and more than fifty short stories. Her work was popular and critically acclaimed during her lifetime, with her novels appearing on best-seller lists and her stories published in major magazines and in The Best American Short Stories. Many of her short works display her remarkable abilities as a humorist, satirizing cultural conventions and the narrowness of small-town life. And yet they also evoke serious questions—relevant as much today as during Glaspell’s lifetime—about society’s values and priorities and about the individual search for self-fulfillment. While the classic “A Jury of Her Peers” has been widely anthologized in the last several decades, the other stories Glaspell wrote between 1915 and 1925 have not been available since their original appearance. This new collection reprints “A Jury of Her Peers”—restoring its original ending—and brings to light eleven other outstanding stories, offering modern readers the chance to appreciate the full range of Glaspell’s literary skills. Glaspell was part of a generation of midwestern writers and artists, including Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who migrated first to Chicago and then east to New York. Like these other writers, she retained a deep love for and a deep ambivalence about her native region. She parodied its provincialism and narrow-mindedness, but she also celebrated its pioneering and agricultural traditions and its unpretentious values. Witty, gently humorous, satiric, provocative, and moving, the stories in this timely collection run the gamut from acerbic to laugh-out-loud funny to thought-provoking. In addition, at least five of them provide background to and thematic comparisons with Glaspell’s innovative plays that will be useful to dramatic teachers, students, and producers. With its thoughtful introduction by two widely published Glaspell scholars, Her America marks an important contribution to the ongoing critical and scholarly efforts to return Glaspell to her former preeminence as a major writer. The universality and relevance of her work to political and social issues that continue to preoccupy American discourse—free speech, ethics, civic justice, immigration, adoption, and gender—establish her as a direct descendant of the American tradition of short fiction derived from Hawthorne, Poe, and Twain.

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1587299240

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Susan Glaspell's Trifle

By: Susan Glaspell

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Susan Glaspell's Trifle

By: Susan Glaspell

A famous one-play act, Trifle is a story of a mysterious murder, loosely based on the real-life case of John Hossack. The act was first played by Provincetown Players on August 8, 1916. In the original performance Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. An early example of feminist drama, the two female leads show sympathy to the victim's wife, Minnie. In contrast, the men was shown to be cold and indifferent. The act was frequently anthologized and cited as one of the greatest work of America drama.

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1519763743

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7 best short stories by Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell,August Nemo

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7 best short stories by Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell,August Nemo

Susan Glaspell was highly regarded in her time, and was well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Her short stories were regularly printed in the era's top periodicals, and her New York Times obituary states that she was "one of the nation's most widely-read novelists." With major achievements in drama, novel, and short fiction, Glaspell is often cited as a "prime example" of an overlooked female writer deserving canonization.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: His Smile"Government Goat"A Jury of Her PeersThe Anarchist: His Dog "One of Those Impossible Americans"At Twilight From A to Z

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3968581865

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Trifles and Other Plays

By: Susan Glaspell

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Trifles and Other Plays

By: Susan Glaspell

A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Susan Glaspell was a founding member of the influential Provincetown Players and credited with a significant role in the development of modern drama in the United States. Her plays have been hailed as “masterpieces” and during her lifetime she was acclaimed as “one of the best contemporary dramatists.” This volume includes three of her earlier one acts, all produced at the Provincetown Playhouse. “Trifles,” Glaspell's classic play of dramatic realism, “Suppressed Desires,” a Freudian comedy written with her husband George Cram Cook and “Close the Book,” her exploration of American attitudes.

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Plays: Large Print

By: Susan Glaspell

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Plays: Large Print

By: Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. First known for her short stories, Glaspell is known also to have written nine novels, fifteen plays, and a biography.

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1796471445

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A Jury Of Her Peers

By Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell

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A Jury Of Her Peers

By Susan Glaspell

By: Susan Glaspell

A Jury of Her Peers" is about the discovery of and subsequent investigation of John Wright's murder. The story begins on a cold, windy day in fictional Dickson County (representing Dickinson County, Iowa) with Martha Hale's being abruptly called to ride to a crime scene. In the buggy is Lewis Hale, her husband, Sheriff Peters, the county sheriff, and Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife. She rushes out to join them in the buggy, and the group sets off. They arrive at the crime scene: the Wrights' lonesome-looking house. Immediately Mrs. Hale exhibits a feeling of guilt for not visiting her friend Minnie Foster since she married and became Mrs. Wright (the dead man's wife) twenty years prior. Once the whole group is safely inside the house, Mr. Hale is asked to describe to the county attorney what he had seen and experienced the day prior. Despite the serious circumstances, he delivers his story in a long-winded and poorly thought-out manner, tendencies he struggles to avoid throughout. The story begins with Mr. Hale's venturing to Mr. Wright's house to convince Wright to get a telephone. Upon entering the house, he finds Mrs. Wright in a delirious state and comes to learn that Mr. Wright has allegedly been strangled.

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Her America

“A Jury of Her Peers” and Other Stories

By: Susan Glaspell

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“A Jury of Her Peers” and Other Stories

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No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century - Letters from the Front

By: Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar

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No Man's Land

The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century - Letters from the Front

By: Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar

How do writers and their readers imagine the future in a turbulent time of sex war and sex change? And how have transformations of gender and genre affected literary representations of "woman," "man," "family," and "society"? This final volume in Gilbert and Gubar's landmark three-part No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century argues that throughout the twentieth century women of letters have found themselves on a confusing cultural front and that most, increasingly aware of the artifice of gender, have dispatched missives recording some form of the "future shock" associated with profound changes in the roles and rules governing sexuality. Divided into two parts, Letters from the Front is chronological in organization, with the first section focusing on such writers of the modernist period as Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and H.D., and the second devoted to authors who came to prominence after the Second World War, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, and A.S. Byatt. Embroiled in the sex antagonism that Gilbert and Gubar traced in The War of the Words and in the sexual experimentations that they studied in Sexchanges, all these artists struggled to envision the inscription of hitherto untold stories on what H.D. called "the blank pages/of the unwritten volume of the new." Through the works of the first group, Gilbert and Gubar focus in particular on the demise of any single normative definition of the feminine and the rise of masquerades of "femininity" amounting to "female female impersonation." In the writings of the second group, the critics pay special attention to proliferating revisions of the family romance--revisions significantly inflected by differences in race, class, and ethnicity--and to the rise of masquerades of masculinity, or "male male impersonation." Throughout, Gilbert and Gubar discuss the impact on literature of such crucial historical events as the Harlem Renaissance, the Second World War, and the "sexual revolution" of the sixties. What kind of future might such a past engender? Their book concludes with a fantasia on "The Further Adventures of Snow White" in which their bravura retellings of the Grimm fairy tale illustrate ways in which future writing about gender might develop.

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0300066600

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Bernice

A Play in Three Acts

By: Susan Glaspell

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Bernice

A Play in Three Acts

By: Susan Glaspell

Hailed as a “masterpiece” when it was first produced and acclaimed as the “significant dramatic offering of the season,” Susan Glaspell's play BERNICE explores the social criticism of its time. Glaspell examines the lives of a bohemian couple who have rejected Victorian morality and how their lives are drastically changed as they come to terms with the mystery and the unanswered questions surrounding the death of Bernice. A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Susan Glaspell was a founding member of the influential Provincetown Players and credited with a significant role in the development of modern drama in the United States.

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1507781180

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Lifted Masks

By: Susan Glaspell

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Lifted Masks

By: Susan Glaspell

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. Stories in this collection include "One of Those Impossible Americans" -- The Plea -- For Love of the Hills -- Freckles M'Grath -- From A to Z -- The Man of Flesh and Blood -- How the Prince Saw America -- The Last Sixty Minutes -- "Out There" -- The Preposterous Motive -- His America -- The Anarchist: His Dog -- At Twilight.

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143852594X

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