Glaspell, Susan - Isaac Goldberg (essay date 1922)
Isaac Goldberg (essay date 1922)
[As a critic, Goldberg's principal interests were the theater and Latin-American literature. His Studies in SpanishAmerican Literature (1920) and Brazilian Literature (1922) are credited with introducing two neglected national groups of writers to English-language readers. In the following essay, Goldberg surveys Glaspell's plays, noting the emphasis on thought and self-conscious emotional expression evident in her characterizations of women.]
Between Susan Glaspell and Eugene O'Neill there lies a fundamental artistic difference that may be rooted in the difference of sex as well as of temperament. Allowing for the fact that clear-cut contrasts are more or less illusory, we may yet assert that where O'Neill is at bottom the man of feeling, Glaspell is the woman of thought. From this distinction may be derived a list of antitheses. With O'Neill's overflow of feeling comes a straining toward violence and...
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