Glaspell, Susan
Glaspell, Susan( 1882–1948),with her husband, George Cram Cook, was a founder and leader of the Provincetown Players and The Playwrights' Theatre, for which, sometimes in collaboration with him, she wrote such one-act plays as Suppressed Desires (1914), satirizing psychoanalysis; Trifles (1916), dealing with the death of a man and the arrest of his wife on suspicion of murder; Close the Book (1917); A Woman's Honor (1918); and Tickless Time (1918), satirizing romantic escapists from modern civilization. Her longer plays include Bernice (1919), which reveals the character of a dead woman through her effect upon her family and friends; The Inheritors (1921), concerned with a Midwestern college founded by liberal families whose third generations clash because one remains liberal but the other has become conservative; The Verge (1921), a psychological study of a neurotic woman driven to...
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