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Susan Glaspell A Research and Production Sourcebook
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Mary E. Papke
Book Code: PSA/
ISBN: 0-313-27383-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27383-4
320 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/1993
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...makes a strong argument throughout this exhaustive guide for a reexamination of Glaspell's significance in the American canon, both as dramatist and minor novelist.
    ...her detailed summations and inclusion of obscure sources should provoke further investigation. As the only research guide available on Glaspell this volume is essential... for all collections focusing on American theater history or feminist literature. Highly recommended for all academic libraries.
    —Choice, October 1993
  • Highly recommended for all academic and major public library literary reference collections.
    —
    Reference Book Review
  • It is hard to imagine a more complete and useful text than this one. For the specialist it offers direction; for a more general audience it provides an excellent introduction to Glaspell through the lucid summaries of a range of her works.
    —THJ
Description: Co-founder of the Provincetown Players and one of its leading writers, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for Alison's House (1930) and was also successful as an actress, producer, and novelist. Her plays were compared, often favorably, with O'Neill's. After a period of eclipse, Glaspell's concern with woman's desire for selfhood brought her plays to the attention of feminist scholarship beginning in the 1970s. Mary Papke argues in this work for a reassessment of Glaspell as a major American playwright. This sourcebook begins with a bio-critical survey and includes plot summaries for each staged work, complete with production history and critical reception. An annotated bibliography of primary works includes plays, novels, short fiction, nonfiction, nonprint, and archival sources. The secondary bibliography documents reviews and provides extensive annotations for a broad range of materials. Chronologically organized, it constitutes a detailed examiniation of Glaspell criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • A Note on Codes and Numbering
  • Chronology
  • Life and Art
  • The Plays: Summaries, Production History, and Critical Reception
  • Bibliography of Primary Sources
  • Bibliography of Secondary Sources
  • Author Index
  • General Index
LC Card Number: 92-42696
LCC Class: PS3513
Dewey Class: 812
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