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December 3, 2002
Susan Glaspell
Barbara Ozieblo
A Critical Biography. During her career as a playwright, Susan Glaspell was regarded as one of the foremost American talents, yet her plays and stories are barely known today. Ozieblo sets out to rectify that situation with a book that combines equal parts engrossing biography and skillful dissection of Glaspell's works. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for Alison's House, and she and her husband George Cram Cook founded the Provincetown Players, the theater company that first performed the plays of Eugene O'Neill. She was a feminist who nevertheless often let herself be overshadowed and dominated by her husband, while in plays such as Trifles and The Verge she deftly explored the hearts and minds of her sex. I had never heard of Glaspell before I read this book, but now I'm dying to see one of her plays performed.

Claire: Only with life that waits have I kept faith.
(with effort raising her eyes to the man)
And only you have ever threatened me.
—Susan Glaspell, The Verge, act 3



   



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