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Susan Glaspell, Vol. 4 »
Authors: Mary E. Papke
ISBN-13: 9780313273834, ISBN-10: 0313273839
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: February 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Mary E. Papke
MARY E. PAPKE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Book Synopsis
This sourcebook on Pulitizer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) features plot summaries of each play with production history and critical reception and fully annotated primary and secondary bibliographies.
Booknews
Co-founder of the Providencetown Players and one of its leading writers, Glaspell (1876-1948) won the Pulitzer Prize for Alison's House (1930) and was also successful as an actress, producer, and novelist. This sourcebook begins with a bio-critical survey and includes plot summaries for each staged work, 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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| A Note on Codes and Numbering | ||
| Chronology | 1 | |
| Life and Art | 5 | |
| The Plays: Summaries, Production History, and Critical Reception | 15 | |
| Suppressed Desires (1915) | 16 | |
| Trifles (1916) | 19 | |
| The People (1917) | 25 | |
| Close the Book (1917) | 26 | |
| The Outside (1917) | 29 | |
| Woman's Honor (1918) | 32 | |
| Tickless Time (1918) | 35 | |
| Bernice (1919) | 37 | |
| Inheritors (1921) | 42 | |
| The Verge (1921) | 56 | |
| Chains of Dew (1922) | 69 | |
| The Comic Artist (1927) | 74 | |
| Alison's House (1930) | 84 | |
| Springs Eternal (1945) | 97 | |
| Bibliography of Primary Sources | 99 | |
| Dramatic Works | 100 | |
| Novels | 104 | |
| Short Stories and Children's Fiction | 117 | |
| Essays and Nonfiction | 130 | |
| Non-print Sources: Film, Filmstrips, Audiotapes | 133 | |
| Unpublished Collected Material: Archival Sources | 134 | |
| Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 137 | |
| 1 | Annotated Bibliography of Reviews | 138 |
| 2 | Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Critical Sources | 164 |
| Author Index | 289 | |
| General Index | 293 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism American & Canadian Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
Entertainment Theater Theater - Direction & Production
Nonfiction Entertainment Theater
Literary Criticism American & Canadian LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismEntertainment
Theater Theater - Direction & ProductionNonfiction
Entertainment Theater
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