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Susan Glaspell’s thirteen plays, treating mostly feminist themes, were produced by the to-become-renowned Provincetown Playhouse and in New York City between 1915 and 1922. Four of her works are found in the 1987 collection entitled Plays by Susan Glaspell: Trifles, Inheritors, The Verge, and The Outside.From 1915 to 1919, Glaspell wrote six one-act plays. Several were satiric comedies, but some were less amusing. The Outside (1917) focuses on two recluses, a young grass widow and her widowed servant, dwelling in a remote former seacoast lifesaving station. They leave self-imposed isolation after realizing that abandonment by men, through either desertion or death, need not require burial from life.

Christie Plays Field Hockey is author Susan O'Hara's fourth book in the series of books designed to inspire the joy of playing team sports. The books revolve around her children, Tim and Christie, and the sports they played when they were young. Lovingly illustrated by Rebecca Barrett, this next exciting book in the series was inspired by her daughter Christie learning to play field hockey. The young reader can follow along with Christie as she tries something new - being a goalie - and falls in love with field hockey and her team. Follow along as Christie finds success and fun playing field hockey, a game she had never considered playing before. Enjoy the books with your sons and daughters as they learn about the joys of teamwork and sports. Susan O'Hara lives in Southwest Florida with her husband, Steve. She loves to play tennis, golf and yoga. She enjoyed watching her children play many high school sports, and then college field hockey and football. Her other books are Tim's First Baseball Game, Tim's First Soccer Game, and Christie Plays Softball. Next up is Tim's First Football Game and Christie Plays Lacrosse! Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/SusanOHara

Susan Glaspell was one of the most popular playwrights of her day, but now is undeservedly obscure. Her plays focus on gender, ethics and rely on deep and sympathetic characters. This collection contains four plays, including her most famous-Triffles. This Leverton Publishing edition is perfect for individual enjoyment or classwork, produced with care to the highest standard of quality.

First performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, Mass., August 8, 1916. GEORGE HENDERSON (County Attorney) HENRY PETERS (Sheriff) LEWIS HALE, A neighboring farmer MRS PETERS MRS HALE SCENE: _The kitchen is the now abandoned farmhouse of_ JOHN WRIGHT, _a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in order--unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish-towel on the table--other signs of incompleted work. At the rear the outer door opens and the_ SHERIFF _comes in followed by the_ COUNTY ATTORNEY _and_ HALE. _The_ SHERIFF _and_ HALE _are men in middle life, the_ COUNTY ATTORNEY _is a young man; all are much bundled up and go at once to the stove. They are followed by the two women--the_ SHERIFF_'s wife first; she is a slight wiry woman, a thin nervous face_. MRS HALE _is larger and would ordinarily be called more comfortable looking, but she is disturbed now and looks fearfully about as she enters. The women have come in slowly, and stand close together near the door_. COUNTY ATTORNEY: (_rubbing his hands_) This feels good. Come up to the fire, ladies. MRS PETERS: (_after taking a step forward_) I'm not--cold. SHERIFF: (_unbuttoning his overcoat and stepping away from the stove as if to mark the beginning of official business_) Now, Mr Hale, before we move things about, you explain to Mr Henderson just what you saw when you came here yesterday morning.

Plays by Susan Glaspell Trifles, The Outside, The Verge, Inheritors, Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer, and journalist. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theater company. During the Great Depression she served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project. A best-selling author in her own time, Glaspell's novels fell out of print after her death, during which time she was remembered primarily for discovering Eugene O'Neil, and for Trifles (1916), a one-act play frequently cited as one of the greatest works of American theater. Critical reassessment has led to renewed interest in her career, and she is today recognized as a pioneering feminist writer and America's first important modern female playwright. A prolific writer, Glaspell is known to have published nine novels, fourteen plays, and over fifty short stories. Often set in her native Iowa, these semi-autobiographical tales frequently address contemporary issues, such as gender, ethics, and dissent, while featuring deep, sympathetic characters who make principled stands.

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A cofounder of the Provincetown Players and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was one of the first female playwrights. Although long neglected, the four plays collected in this critical edition reveal the thoroughly modern nature of her concerns. Trifles (1916) develops a feminist critique of social role, while The Outside (1917) stages a debate between the life force and a perverse celebration of death. In The Verge (1921), Glaspell presented an experimental work of considerable proportions, more daring in many ways than anything attempted by O'Neill.