Barbara Ozieblo,Jerry Dickey's Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: American Modernist PDF

By Barbara Ozieblo,Jerry Dickey

Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell provides severe introductions to 2 of the main major American dramatists of the early 20th century. Glaspell and Treadwell led American Theatre from outmoded melodrama to the experimentation of significant eu playwrights like Ibsen, Strindberg and Shaw.



This is the 1st ebook to house Glaspell and Treadwell’s performs from a theatrical, instead of literary, viewpoint, and provides a entire evaluation in their paintings from lesser identified performs to seminal productions of Trifles and Machinal.



Although each one lady pursued her personal subject matters, topics and demeanour of level creation, this shared quantity underscores the theatrical and cultural stipulations influencing lady playwrights in glossy the United States.

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