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Researchers, see especially the Glaspell entries in

DLB 7: Twentieth-Century American Dramatists
DLB 9: American Novelists, 1910-1945
and DLB 78: American Short-Story Writers, 1880-1910

Plays & Original Production Group

  • Suppressed Desires, by Glaspell and George Cram Cook, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Wharf Theatre, 1 August 1915
  • Trifles, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Wharf Theatre, 8 August 1916
  • The People, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 9 March 1917
  • Close the Book, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 2 November 1917
  • The Outside, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 28 December 1917
  • Woman's Honor, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 26 April 1918
  • Tickless Time, by Glaspell and Cook, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 20 December 1918
  • Bernice, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 21 March 1919
  • Inheritors, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 21 March 1921
  • The Verge, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 14 November 1921
  • Chains of Dew, New York, Provincetown Playhouse, 27 April 1922
  • The Comic Artist, by Glaspell and Norman Matson, London, The Strand, 24 June 1928 New York, Morosco Theatre, 19 April 1933
  • Alison's House, New York, Civic Repertory Theatre, 1 December 1930.

Novels

  • The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love (New York: Stokes, 1909 London: Pitman, 1909)
  • The Visioning: A Novel (New York: Stokes, 1911 London: Murray, 1912)
  • Lifted Masks: Stories (New York: Stokes, 1912)
  • Fidelity: A Novel (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1915 London: Jarrolds, 1924)
  • Trifles (New York: Shay/The Washington Square Players, 1916 London & New York: S. French, 1932)
  • Suppressed Desires, by Glaspell and George Cram Cook (New York: Shay, 1917)
  • The People, and Close the Book: Two One Act Plays (New York: Shay, 1918)
  • Inheritors: A Play in Three Acts (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1921 London: Benn, 1924)
  • The Verge: A Play in Three Acts (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1922 London: Benn, 1924)
  • Bernice (London: Benn, 1924)
  • Tickless Time: A Comedy in One Act, by Glaspell and Cook (Boston: Baker, 1925)
  • The Road to the Temple (London: Benn, 1926 New York: Stokes, 1927)
  • The Comic Artist: A Play in Three Acts, by Glaspell and Norman Matson (New York: Stokes, 1927 London: Benn, 1927)
  • A Jury of Her Peers (London: Benn, 1927)
  • Brook Evans (New York: Stokes, 1928 London: Gollancz, 1928)
  • Fugitive's Return (New York: Stokes, 1929 London: Gollancz, 1929)
  • Alison's House (New York & London: S. French, 1930)
  • Ambrose Holt and Family (New York: Stokes, 1931 London: Gollancz, 1931)
  • Cherished and Shared of Old (New York: Messner, 1940)
  • The Morning Is Near Us: A Novel (New York: Stokes, 1940 London: Gollancz, 1940)
  • Norma Ashe: A Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1942 London: Gollancz, 1943)
  • Judd Rankin's Daughter (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1945) republished as Prodigal Giver (London: Gollancz, 1946).

Editions and Collections

  • Plays (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1920)--contains Trifles, The People, Close the Book , The Outside, Woman's Honor, Bernice, Suppressed Desires, and Tickless Time
  • Three Plays (London: Benn, 1924)
  • Trifles and Six Other Short Plays, by Glaspell and George Cram Cook (London: Benn, 1926)--comprises Trifles, The People, Close the Book, The Outside, Woman's Honor, Suppressed Desires, and Tickless Time
  • Plays, edited by C. W. E. Bigsby (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987)--comprises Trifles, The Outside , The Verge, and Inheritors
  • Lifted Masks, and Other Works, edited by Eric S. Rabkin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993)

Bibliographies:

  • Gerhard Bach, "Susan Glaspell (1876-1948): A Bibliography of Dramatic Criticism," Great Lakes Review, 3, no. 2 (Winter 1977): 1-34
  • Mary E. Papke, Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993).
  • Biography:
  • Marcia Noe, Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland (Macomb: Western Illinois University, 1983).

Secondary Sources:

     

  • Linda Ben-Zvi, "'Murder, She Wrote': The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's Trifles," Theatre Journal, 44, no. 2 (May 1992): 141-162
  • Ben-Zvi, ed., Susan Glaspell: Essays on Her Theater and Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1995)
  • Helen Deutsch and Stella Hanau, The Provincetown: A Story of the Theatre (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931)
  • Isaac Goldberg, The Drama of Transition: Native and Exotic Playcraft (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd, 1922)
  • Ludwig Lewisohn, Expression in America (New York: Harper, 1932)
  • Veronica Makowsky, Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women: A Critical Interpretation of Her Work (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
  • Robert Károly Sarlós, Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players: Theatre in Ferment (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982)
  • Arthur E. Waterman, Susan Glaspell (New York: Twayne, 1966).

The majority of Susan Glaspell's papers are housed in the

Henry W. Berg and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature in the New York Public Library.

Also of interest are the Provincetown Players Theater Collection, office files, and clippings scrapbook housed in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center the Provincetown Players File at the Museum of the City of New York the Susan Glaspell Papers in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library at the University of Virginia and the Susan Glaspell Collection of the St. Ambrose College Library in Davenport, Iowa.

This page created March 14, 2001. By Kim Wells.

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