Published by McFarland, Noelia Hernando-Real’s exploration of eleven Glaspell plays written between 1915 and 1943 focuses on one of her major themes, the interplay between place and identity. Hernando-Real examines the means Glaspell employs to engage her characters in proxemical and verbal dialectics with the forces of place that turn them into victims of location, and her characters’ attempts to escape the influence of territoriality and shape identities of their own.
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6394-7
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8832-2
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Hernando-Real has also recently published “Sane Enough to Kill: On Women, Madness, and the Theatricality of Violence in Susan Glaspell’s The Verge” in Violence in American Drama. Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects. Eds. Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, Ramón Espejo Romero and Bernardo Muñoz Martinez. Also published by McFarland.

Edited by Linda Ben-Zvi, Professor Emerita in Theatre and English at Tel Aviv University and Colorado State University, and by  J. Ellen Gainor, Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Cornell University.

The first complete collection of American Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell’s dramatic works, this book includes the one-acts Suppressed Desires, Trifles, The People, The Outside, Woman’s Honor, Close the Book, Tickless Time, and Free Laughter and the full-length plays Bernice, Inheritors, The Verge, Alison’s House, The Comic Artist, Chains of Dew, and Springs Eternal, the last two of which are published here for the first time. Each play includes an introductory essay along with extended biographical and critical analyses. Two appendices give details on both the first runs and select recent productions of the plays.

ISBN: 978-0-7864-3432-9

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Edited and with an introduction by Patricia L. Bryan and Martha C. Carpentier, this collection includes “A Jury of Her Peers” and 11 other Glaspell short stories never reprinted since their original publication, most in Harper’s Magazine, the preeminent arbiter of American literary tastes for over fifty years.  Bryan and Carpentier’s introduction places Glaspell’s short fiction in the traditions of Twain’s humor and Poe’s grotesque, and provides startling new data about the publication history of “Jury” — now for the first time, readers have access to the original ending of Glaspell’s most famous work.  Very affordable, this anthology would be a great addition to any course in American fiction.

To order go to Amazon, or:
http://www.uiowapress.org/

To listen to Patricia Bryan’s interview on WUNC, click on July 21.

From Judith E. Barlow, Women Writers of the Provincetown Players features thirteen short plays by women originally produced by the Provincetown Players: Neith Boyce, Winter’s Night; Louise Bryant, The Game; Mary Carolyn Davies, The Slave with Two Faces; Rita Wellman, The Rib-Person; Susan Glaspell, Woman’s Honor; Rita Creighton Smith, The Rescue; Alice L. Rostetter, The Widow’s Veil; Bosworth Crocker, The Baby Carriage; Mary Foster Barber, The Squealer; Edna St. Vincent Millay, Aria da Capo; Edna Ferber, The Eldest; Djuna Barnes, Kurzy of the Sea; and Rita Leo (Rita Wellman), The Horrors of War.

“These are plays that we have been reading about for years; it is exciting to experience the actual texts and make one’s own judgment.” — Carol DeBoer-Langworthy

Paper: ISBN 978-1-4384-2790-4 Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-4384-2789-8
To order: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4832-women-writers-of-the-provinceto.aspx

Edited by Barbara Ozieblo and Jerry Dickey for the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists Series, Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell is an invaluable introduction to two of the most important American women dramatists of the twentieth century.

ISBN 978-0-415-40484-6

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J. Ellen Gainor has co-edited the new Norton Anthology of Drama with Stanton B.Garner Jr. and Martin Puchner.

Two vol. set: ISBN 978-0-393-97470-6
Shorter edition: ISBN 978-0-393-93412-0

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http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-93412-0/

Susan and me: critical and autocritical essays on Susan Glaspell’s theatre (in Portuguese)

By Lucia V. Sander

University of Brasília Press, Brasília DF

Nieves Alberola Crespo and Yvonne Shafer edit this collection of works by American women writers for the Biblioteca de Autoras Norteamericanas. Published by Ellago Ediciones, it includes plays by Susan Glaspell, Zona Gale, Alice Gerstenberg and Zora Neale Hurston, plus critical introductions with details about the authors’ lives, careers, and works, making these short plays available for the first time in Spanish.
ISBN 978-84-95881-97-7

Through an exploration of eight plays written between the years of 1916 and 1943 – Trifles, Springs Eternal, The People, Alison’s House, Bernice, The Outside, Chains of Dew and The Verge – Kristina Hinz-Bode elucidates one of Glaspell’s most important themes: individuality versus social conformity.

MacFarland & Company, ISBN 0-7864-2505-9

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http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2505-1