Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell

This is the first book to deal with Glaspell and Treadwell's plays from a theatrical perspective, and presents a comprehensive overview, from lesser known plays to seminal productions of Trifles and Machinal .

Introduction - Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry Dickey Section I: Susan Glaspell - Barbara Ozieblo 1. Life and Ideas Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown Players Susan Glaspell's Life Themes in Susan Glaspell's Writing 2. The Short Plays Suppressed Desires The People Close the Book The Outside Woman's Honor Tickless Time 3. The Full-Length Plays Bernice Chains of Dew Inheritors The Comic Artist Alison's House Springs Eternal 4. Key Plays I - Trifles The Writing of Trifles Trifles: Concision and Structure Trifles: Feminist Interpretations Performances of Trifles 5. Key Plays II - The Verge The Provincetown Players Production of The Verge Later Productions of The Verge Susan Glaspell Chronology Section II: Sophie Treadwell - Jerry Dickey 6. Life and Ideas Early Years Activism for Women's Rights From Modernist Salons to Broadway Treadwell's Self-Fashioning: a Tourist Among the Ruins 7. Early Plays Women's Rights: A Man's Own and Rights A Man's Own Rights Experimental One-Act Plays: To Him Who Waits and The Eye of the Beholder To Him Who Waits The Eye of the Beholder Merging Journalism and Theater: Sympathy and Madame Bluff Sympathy (An Unwritten Chapter) Madame Bluff 8. Broadway and Later Plays Gringo O Nightingale Ladies Leave Lone Valley Plumes in the Dust Hope for a Harvest Later Plays 9. Key Plays I - Machinal The Play The Broadway Production at the Plymouth Theatre, 1928 Modern Psychology and Unconscious Projection Critical Reception Alexander Tairov's Production at the Kamerny Theatre, Moscow, 1933 The New York Shakespeare Festival Production, 1990 The Royal National Theatre Production, London, 1993 Contemporary Theoretical Approaches 10. Key Plays II - Intimations for Saxophone The Play The Plot and Themes The Arena Stage Production, 2005 Contemporary Theoretical Approaches Sophie Treadwell Chronology Bibliography of Works Cited Introduction Susan Glaspell Sophie Treadwell