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(0)Susan Glaspell
1) Plays
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Author is believed lesbian & 1st woman playwright in this century to achieve any notice.
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Dramatizes the short story by Susan Glaspell about the isolation and oppression of a farmwoman in rural America in 1900. A farmer is found murdered at a remote farmhouse, and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. A motive for the murder gradually comes to light as evidence of the physical and emotional abuse of the suspect emerges.
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"Women writing for the stage today are the heirs of a neglected but not negligible tradition. This anthology brings together for the first time five of the best plays written by America's 'forgotten' women playwrights before 1930. Fasion is a social comedy that brilliantly satirizes the status-hungry nouveau riche of urban America; A Man's World examines the working woman's domain and the injustice of the double standard; Trifles is a perfectly constructed...
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Covers American theater's formative period, 1916-1929, with 25 complete plays, biographical and production data, and a survey of the period's drama and dramatists. This volume supplements the two previously published collections: Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre (1929-1939), first series and Best plays of the modern American theatre (1939-1946), second series.