A cofounder of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her concern with language as subject, character as an expression of social role, plot as a mechanism that may ensnare rather than locate the self, mode her a modern.
Long known for only a single play, with this collection, Susan Glaspell now emerges as a significant figure in the history of American drama, a woman of genuine creative daring.