Icebound
Icebound,play by Owen Davis, produced and published in 1923, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Members of the tight-lipped, “ice-bound” Jordan family, in Veazie, Me., await the death of old Mrs. Jordan, whom none of them loves. She has a secret fondness for her youngest son Ben, the “black sheep,” and he is summoned by Jane Crosby, a poor cousin and household servant, who is in love with him. Jane's influence over Mrs. Jordan is disliked by the older son, Henry, his mean wife Emma, and vain step-daughter Nettie, and by the widowed daughter Sadie and her children, Ella and Orin. They plan to dismiss Jane on acquiring the estate. Mrs. Jordan dies before Ben arrives, risking arrest on a charge of arson that is dropped in time. The lawyer, Judge Bradford, discloses that Jane inherits the bulk of the estate, and she keeps Ben out of jail by paying bail for him, making him stay to help on the farm until his trial in the spring. He distrusts her,...
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