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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      02 July 1987
      ISBN:
      9781139165969
      9780521312042
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139165969
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.252kg, 170 Pages
      • Series:
      British and American Playwrights
      Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts, American Theatre, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Series:
    British and American Playwrights
    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts, American Theatre, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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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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