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Plays by Susan Glaspell (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)

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Susan Glaspell’s thirteen plays, treating mostly feminist themes, were produced by the to-become-renowned Provincetown Playhouse and in New York City between 1915 and 1922. Four of her works are found in the 1987 collection entitled Plays by Susan Glaspell: Trifles, Inheritors, The Verge, and The Outside.

From 1915 to 1919, Glaspell wrote six one-act plays. Several were satiric comedies, but some were less amusing. The Outside (1917) focuses on two recluses, a young grass widow and her widowed servant, dwelling in a remote former seacoast...

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