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020			_a9781139165969 (ebook)
020			_z9780521309455 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPS3513.L35 _bA6 1987
082	0	0	_a812/.52 _219
100	1		_aGlaspell, Susan, _d1876-1948, _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aPlays. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aPlays / _cby Susan Glaspell ; edited with an introduction by C.W.E. Bigsby ; additional textual notes by Christine Dymkowski.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1987.
300			_a1 online resource (vii, 161 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBritish and American playwrights, 1750-1920
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aA cofounder of the Provincetown Players - the group that acted as midwife to the American theatre - Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her early plays were in many respects as challenging and original as those with which O'Neill made his debut. Her concern with language as subject, with character as an expression of social role, with plot as a mechanism that may ensnare rather than locate the self, mode her very much a modern. In Trifles (1916) she developed a feminist critique of social role. In The Outside (1917) she staged a debate between the life force and a perverse celebration of death. In both plays silence becomes an eloquent expression of meaning. The Verge (1921) is an experimental work of considerable proportions, more daring in many ways than anything attempted by O'Neill. Though Inheritors (1921) is far more conventional it touched a contemporary nerve, questioning the nature and reality of American pieties. Long known only for a single play, Susan Glaspell now emerges as a significant figure in the history of American drama, a woman of genuine creative daring.
650		0	_aAmerican drama.
700	1		_aBigsby, C. W. E., _eeditor.
700	1		_aDymkowski, Christine, _d1950- _ewriter of additional content.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521309455
830		0	_aBritish and American playwrights, 1750-1920.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139165969
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