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Susan Glaspell | | Variant Name: |
Susan Keating Glaspell, Susan (Keating) Glaspell | | Birth Date: |
July 1, 1876July 1, 1882 | | Death Date: |
July 27, 1948 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female |
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 Biography of Susan Glaspell
4,993 words, approx. 17 pages
 As early as 1922, Susan Glaspell was being hailed as "the playwright of woman's selfhood." Currently, this is the major claim for her lasting importance as a dramatist. Glaspell, however, was not merely a feminist but also one of the few experimental... summary from source:
Biography of Susan Glaspell
4,992 words, approx. 17 pages
Susan Glaspell was one of the founding figures of modern American drama and, along with Eugene O'Neill, one of the most prominent playwrights of the little theater movement in the 1910s and 1920s. The value of her contribution to American drama rests... summary from source:
Biography of Susan Glaspell
3,276 words, approx. 11 pages
Susan Glaspell was a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and best-selling author who wrote fourteen plays, nine novels, and over fifty short stories, essays, and articles. Her life parallels the intellectual and cultural patterns that were developing in...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Susan Glaspell Information
1,155 words, approx. 4 pages
 Susan Glaspell (1876 – 1948) was a bestselling novelist and a Pulitzer prize winning playwright. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States....
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 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography.(Review)
01/01/2001: 650 words, approx. 2 pages Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography. By Barbara Ozieblo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 345 pp. $55.00/$22.50 paper. Co-founder of the Provincetown Players, best-selling novelist, and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Susan Glaspell was nearly forgotten after her death in Early recovery... summary from source:
Legacy Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography
04/30/2001: 673 words, approx. 2 pages Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography By Barbara Ozieblo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 345 pp. $55.00/$22.5. paper. Co-founder of the Provincetown Players, best-selling novelist, and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Susan Glaspell was nearly forgotten after her death in 1948....
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Linda Ben-Zvi
12,004 words, approx. 40 pages
In the essay below, Ben-Zvi investigates a murder trial that Glaspell covered as a reporter as a likely basis for Trifles.
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Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 86%Isolation and Rage in Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"
813 words, approx. 3 pages
A description of how Susan Glaspell uses setting in her short story "Trifles" to portray the main character Minnie's isolation and confinement. This isolation and confinement serves to foreshadow Minnie's eruption of pent-up rage and subsequent murder of her husband. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 86%"Trifles": A Marriage Gone Wrong
433 words, approx. 1 pages
In her 1916 play "Trifles," Susan Glaspell uses a birdcage, a bird, and a rope as symbols of entrapment, death, and destruction. They help serve to portray a gloomy, dark, and lonely setting for the play, as the character Mrs. Wright was trapped in a horrible marriage during a time when women had few rights and divorce was not an option.
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