Trifles and Other Plays - Paperback

by Susan Glaspell (Author)

A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Susan Glaspell was a founding member of the influential Provincetown Players and credited with a significant role in the development of modern drama in the United States. Her plays have been hailed as "masterpieces" and during her lifetime she was acclaimed as "one of the best contemporary dramatists." This volume includes three of her earlier one acts, all produced at the Provincetown Playhouse. "Trifles," Glaspell's classic play of dramatic realism, "Suppressed Desires," a Freudian comedy written with her husband George Cram Cook and "Close the Book," her exploration of American attitudes.