Susan Glaspell : Her Life and Times
Saved in:
| Title: | Susan Glaspell : Her Life and Times |
|---|---|
| Description: | Trifles--a play exploring what happens when women unite against forces that deny them a voice and identity--has become an international classic, as powerful and relevant today as it was in the summer of 1916, when it was first staged by vacationing friends in a converted fishing wharf in Provincetown,Massachusetts. This biography is the story of its author, Susan Glaspell, and the forces that propelled her from her Midwest birthplace in Davenport, Iowa to Greenwich Village during its glory days, where she established herself as a central figure in the avant-garde community and became the first modern American woman playwright. Glaspell's life is a feminist tale of pioneering in which she broke new ground for women. A journalist by age eighteen, she worked her way through university as a news reporter and became a leading novelist of the period. A co-founder of many of Greenwich Village's important avant-garde institutions, she was a close friend of its leading figures, including Eugene O'Neill. She and O'Neill were equally credited with launching a new type of indigenous drama, hers addressing such pressing topics as suffrage, birth control, female sexuality, marriage equality, socialism, and pacifism. In 1931 she won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.'Out there--lies all that's not been touched--lies life that waits,'Claire Archer says in The Verge, Glaspell's most experimental play. This biography is the exciting and inspiring story of Glaspell's personal exploration of the same terrain |
| Authors: | Linda Ben-Zvi |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Women and literature--History--20th century. -, Women in the theater--History--20th century. - |
| Categories: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| FullText | Links: – Type: ebook-pdf – Type: ebook-epub Text: Availability: 0 |
|---|---|
| Header | DbId: nlebk DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) An: 138137 RelevancyScore: 998 AccessLevel: 6 PubType: eBook PubTypeId: ebook PreciseRelevancyScore: 998.4384765625 |
| IllustrationInfo | |
| ImageInfo | – Size: thumb Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$138137$PDF&s=r – Size: medium Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$138137$PDF&s=d |
| Items | – Name: Title Label: Title Group: Ti Data: Susan Glaspell : Her Life and Times – Name: Abstract Label: Description Group: Ab Data: Trifles--a play exploring what happens when women unite against forces that deny them a voice and identity--has become an international classic, as powerful and relevant today as it was in the summer of 1916, when it was first staged by vacationing friends in a converted fishing wharf in Provincetown,Massachusetts. This biography is the story of its author, Susan Glaspell, and the forces that propelled her from her Midwest birthplace in Davenport, Iowa to Greenwich Village during its glory days, where she established herself as a central figure in the avant-garde community and became the first modern American woman playwright. Glaspell's life is a feminist tale of pioneering in which she broke new ground for women. A journalist by age eighteen, she worked her way through university as a news reporter and became a leading novelist of the period. A co-founder of many of Greenwich Village's important avant-garde institutions, she was a close friend of its leading figures, including Eugene O'Neill. She and O'Neill were equally credited with launching a new type of indigenous drama, hers addressing such pressing topics as suffrage, birth control, female sexuality, marriage equality, socialism, and pacifism. In 1931 she won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.'Out there--lies all that's not been touched--lies life that waits,'Claire Archer says in The Verge, Glaspell's most experimental play. This biography is the exciting and inspiring story of Glaspell's personal exploration of the same terrain – Name: Author Label: Authors Group: Au Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Linda+Ben-Zvi%22">Linda Ben-Zvi</searchLink> – Name: TypePub Label: Resource Type Group: TypPub Data: eBook. – Name: Subject Label: Subjects Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Authors%2C+American--20th+century--Biography%22">Authors, American--20th century--Biography</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Women+and+literature--History--20th+century%2E+-%22">Women and literature--History--20th century. -</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Women+in+the+theater--History--20th+century%2E+-%22">Women in the theater--History--20th century. -</searchLink> – Name: SubjectBISAC Label: Categories Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22BIOGRAPHY+%26+AUTOBIOGRAPHY+%2F+Literary+Figures%22">BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22LITERARY+CRITICISM+%2F+American+%2F+General%22">LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22LITERARY+CRITICISM+%2F+Women+Authors%22">LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors</searchLink> |
| PLink | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=138137 |
| RecordInfo | BibRecord: BibEntity: Classifications: – Code: 813.52 Scheme: ddc Type: prePub Languages: – Code: eng Text: English Subjects: – SubjectFull: Authors, American--20th century--Biography Type: general – SubjectFull: Women and literature--History--20th century. - Type: general – SubjectFull: Women in the theater--History--20th century. - Type: general Titles: – TitleFull: Susan Glaspell : Her Life and Times Type: main BibRelationships: HasContributorRelationships: – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Linda Ben-Zvi – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Linda Ben-Zvi IsPartOfRelationships: – BibEntity: Dates: – D: 01 M: 01 Type: published Y: 2005 – D: 04 M: 02 Type: profile Y: 2014 Identifiers: – Type: isbn-print Value: 9780195115062 – Type: isbn-print Value: 9780190283346 – Type: isbn-print Value: 9780195313239 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9781423720829 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9780195354096 Titles: – TitleFull: Susan Glaspell : Her Life and Times Type: main |
| ResultId | 1 |
