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...
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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 intelle...
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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...
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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...
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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 pl...
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In the excerpt below, Aarons stresses that American pioneer women needed the support of a larger female community in order to withstand the isolation of pioneer life.
American fiction written by women...
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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...
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In the following essay, Mustazza maintains that when Glaspell adapted the play Trifles into the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers,” she changed the focus from the so-called trivial detai...
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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 ...
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In the excerpt below, first published in 1986, Hedges reconstructs women's social history of the nineteenth-century American West to explain the symbolism of Glaspell's story “A J...
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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 wi...
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Critical Essay by Leonard Mustazza
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...
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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 with...
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Critical Essay by Barbara Ozieblo
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...
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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 wit...
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Critical Essay by Andrew E. Malone
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...
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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 with...
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Critical Essay by Bartholow V. Crawford
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 ...
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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 not...
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Critical Essay by Marcia Noe
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 with hi...
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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 with...
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Critical Essay by Christine Dymkowski
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...
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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 dedication t...
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In the following essay, Dymkowski investigates the "preoccupation with the limits of experience" displayed in Glaspell's plays.
Until recently, Susan Glaspell has been little more...
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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...
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The following excerpts provide a broad overview of Glaspell's development as a playwright.'
Glaspell did not publish a novel between Fidelity in 1915 and Brook Evans in 1928, the years o...
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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 of...
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In the following, Smith examines Glaspell's presentation of women in Trifles and she analyzes the play as "a possible fictional representation of a [spouse battering. "]
Introduct...
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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 massiv...
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In this essay, Russell argues that the three women depicted in Trifles bear "strong resemblance" to the three Fates of Greek mythology.
On the surface, Susan Glaspell's one-act pl...
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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...
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In the short story "Trifles", Susan Glaspell uses objects and locations to create a mood of isolation, confinement. This also foreshadows Minnie's eruption of pent up rage which resulted in the murder...
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Susan Glaspell
