Susan Glaspell Summary

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 mere... Read more

Susan Glaspell 's literary reputation derives chiefly from the fourteen plays she wrote between 1915 and 1930, most of them for the Provincetown Players. Along with Eugene O'Neill she was the most imp... Read more

In the following excerpt, Alkalay-Gut analyzes details of “A Jury of Her Peers.” The continuing popularity of Susan Glaspell's story, “Jury of Her Peers,” and the... Read more

In this excerpt from a larger treatment of gender-based reading, Fetterley discusses how Glaspell attempted in “A Jury of Her Peers” to teach male readers how to “read” fem... Read more

In the following essay, Hallgren demonstrates how readers of “A Jury of Her Peers” are meant to collude with Glaspell-as-narrator in the same ways the female characters band together to ... Read more

Critical Essay by Ludwig Lewisohn Like so much else in his life, his heroic effort to finish his last novel came too late; and the luck which might have kept him alive until he had finished was not w... Read more

Critical Essay by Linda Ben-Zvi Like so much else in his life, his heroic effort to finish his last novel came too late; and the luck which might have kept him alive until he had finished was not wit... Read more

Critical Essay by Isaac Goldberg Like so much else in his life, his heroic effort to finish his last novel came too late; and the luck which might have kept him alive until he had finished was not wi... Read more

Critical Essay by The Spectator Like so much else in his life, his heroic effort to finish his last novel came too late; and the luck which might have kept him alive until he had finished was not wit... Read more

Critical Essay by Arthur E. Waterman Like so much else in his life, his heroic effort to finish his last novel came too late; and the luck which might have kept him alive until he had finished was no... Read more

Critical Essay by Elaine Hedges Like so much else in his life, his heroic effort to finish his last novel came too late; and the luck which might have kept him alive until he had finished was not wit... Read more

In the essay below, Waterman surveys Glaspell's major plays and assesses her significance as a playwright. If the Provincetown's chief contribution to American drama was its dedicatio... Read more

Ben-Zvi assesses the ways that Glaspell's work paved the way for modern feminist writers, arguing that while Glaspell's "particular experiments may at first glance seem removed fr... Read more

Shafer offers a concise literary biography of Glaspell and an appraisal of her work. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was one of the most talented and original women playwrights writing in the first half... Read more

In the essay below, Ben-Zvi investigates a murder trial that Glaspell covered as a reporter as a likely basis for Trifles. In the preface to her book Women Who Kill, Ann Jones explains that her mas... Read more

The setting of a story is the physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs.(Meyer 1635) The setting can also set the mood of the story, which will help readers to get a bet... Read more