Research Catalog

Title

Susan Glaspell : the complete plays / edited by Linda Ben-Zvi and J. Ellen Gainor.

Author

Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Ben-Zvi, Linda.
• Gainor, J. Ellen

Description

viii, 417 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"The first complete collection of the works of American playwright Susan Glaspell, this book includes all of the Pulitzer Prize winner's one-act works. The book also features Glaspell's full-length plays some of which are published here for the first time. Each play includes an introductory essay along with extended biographical and critical essays"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Plays

Alternative Title

Plays

Subject

American drama

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A brief biography -- A critical introduction -- Suppressed desires -- Trifles -- Close the book -- The people -- The outside -- Woman's honor -- Tickless time -- Bernice -- Free laughter -- Chains of dew -- Inheritors -- The verge -- The comic artist -- Alison's house -- Springs eternal -- Appendix A: First productions of the plays -- Appendix B: Select recent professional productions

ISBN

• 9780786434329 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786434325 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010009821

OCLC

496959852

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library