Susan Glaspell - A Research and Production Sourcebook

Co-founder of the Provincetown Players and one of its leading writers, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for Alison's House (1930) and was also successful as an actress, producer, and novelist. Her plays were compared, often favorably, with O'Neill's. After a period of eclipse, Glaspell's concern with woman's desire for selfhood brought her plays to the attention of feminist scholarship beginning in the 1970s. Mary Papke argues in this work for a reassessment of Glaspell as a major American playwright. This sourcebook begins with a bio-critical survey and includes plot summaries for each staged work, complete with production history and critical reception. An annotated bibliography of primary works includes plays, novels, short fiction, nonfiction, nonprint, and archival sources. The secondary bibliography documents reviews and provides extensive annotations for a broad range of materials. Chronologically organized, it constitutes a detailed examiniation of Glaspell criticism.

List of contents

A Note on Codes and Numbering
Chronology
Life and Art
The Plays: Summaries, Production History, and Critical Reception
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Author Index
General Index

About the author

Mary Elizabeth Papke

Product details

• Authors: Mary Elizabeth Papke, Mary E. Papke
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.1993
• EAN: 9780313273834
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27383-4
• Series: Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, The Arts: Drama