Alison's House (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Midwest, Poetry or poets, Sisters, Houses, mansions, or manors, Iowa
- Locales: Iowa
Alison's House, the last produced play by Glaspell, was first presented at the Civic Repertory Theater in New York City on December 1, 1930. The production, produced and directed by Le Galliene, ran for forty-one performances and won for Glaspell the 1931 Pulitzer Prize in drama—a decision that outraged some critics who disliked her play and thought it too literary.
Alison's House concerns a noted fictional poet, Alison Stanhope, who has been dead for eighteen years when the curtain rises. Her poetry, published after her death, has brought her posthumous fame....
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