Glaspell, Susan - Marcia Noe (essay date 1980)
Marcia Noe (essay date 1980)
[In the following essay, which was originally presented as a paper in 1980 at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association of America, Noe analyzes the metaphorical significance ofGlaspell's dramatic settings, asserting that they represent her characters' psychological isolation and need for human contact.]
Susan Glaspell is best known today, if she is known at all, as one of the Provincetown Players, the little theater group active during the second decade of this century whose eagerness to stage original American dramas brought to light the talents of Eugene O'Neill. What is generally unknown today is that during this period, Glaspell shared the spotlight with O'Neill as one of the two most prolific and imaginative playwrights of the group. "In technique Susan Glaspell is undoubtedly the superior of Eugene O'Neill," wrote Andrew Malone in Dublin Magazine. Isaac Goldberg called her "one of the few...
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