A co-founder of the Provincetown Players - the group which acted as midwife to the American theatre - Susan Glaspell (1876â1948) can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her early plays were in many respects as challenging and original as those with which OâNeill made his [...]
"Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell" presents critical introductions to two of the most significant American dramatists of the early twentieth century. Glaspell and Treadwell led American Theatre from outdated melodrama to the experimentation of great European playwrights like Ibsen, Strindberg and[...]