Exhibit on Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown Players at the Humanities Library, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Susan Glaspell, pionera del teatro experimental.”

On the occasion of the centenary of her key work, Trifles, in 2016, this exhibition, curated by Noelia Hernando-Real, celebrates the figure of Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), “a little known jewel of American literature”. Winner of a Pulitzer Theater Award, author of fifteen plays, eleven novels, a biography, more than fifty stories, a children’s book, reporter and actress as well as dramatist and fiction writer, Susan Glaspell was a pioneer of experimental theater in the United States. Together with her husband, George Cram (Jig) Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the small amateur theater company that changed the direction of the performing arts in the United States towards the avant-garde.

The first part of the exhibition provides visitors with an overview of the articles Glaspell wrote for the Des Moines Daily News about the murder of John Hossack and the trial of his wife, a crime that inspired Trifles. The showcases of this exhibit invite visitors to glimpse the life and works of Susan Glaspell, to understand the emergence of the Provincetown Players within the social, political and cultural movements of New York in the first decades of the twentieth century, as well as enjoy the exciting history of the Provincetown Players. To view the exhibit online, go to Links page for URL.

3 thoughts on “Exhibit on Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown Players at the Humanities Library, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Susan Glaspell, pionera del teatro experimental.”

  1. Julia Genoveva

    This sounds incredible!! Wish I would of been there so see it! I just became a fan of Susan Glaspell this past year and LOVE her work. I can’t believe I didn’t know about her work sooner. I was so inspired by her writing & her life that now I ‘m directing and producing an off-off broadway production of her play, “Bernice” in NYC 10/22, 10/23, 10/24 and couldn’t be more excited!!

  2. Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

    I just noticed a typo in one of the entries on the Secondary Sources section of the web site, and there is no information about whom to contact for corrections so I am submitting it this way.
    Atlas, Marilyn Judith. “Creating Women’s Myth: Emily Dickson’s Legacy to Susan Glaspell.” Focus: Teaching English Language Arts 8.1 (Fall1981): 55-61.
    Dickson’s should surely be Dickinson’s

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