Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

by J. Ellen Gainor

Book Overview

Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, and of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472030108
• ISBN13: 9780472030101
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"