Alison's House | Critical Overview
Glaspell was an esteemed author and playwright in her own time and also well-known for cofounding the Provincetown Players and launching the career of Eugene O’Neill. In 1918, the New York Times hailed her as “one of the two or three foremost and most promising contemporaneous writers of the one-act play.” Despite her popularity, however, Alison’s House was never a resounding success. J. Brooks Atkinson, reporting for the New York Times on the off-Broadway production of Alison’s House in December 1930, writes that it is “haunted by genius” but that it...
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