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Drama

Plays

by Susan Glaspell

About 3 h 50 min of reading11 chapters

This collection of Susan Glaspell's plays contains Trifles, The Outside, The Verge and Inheritors, all written for the Provincetown Players, the experimental company she founded with her husband George Cram Cook in 1915. Trifles, a one-act play in which two women piece together why a farm wife killed her husband while the men search the house for evidence, is one of the most performed short plays in American theater. The Outside is set in an abandoned life-saving station on Cape Cod. Inheritors follows a Midwestern college founded by idealists as it turns against free speech after the First World War, and The Verge is an expressionist portrait of a woman breeding plants and breaking through the limits of her life. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first act free.

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Is Plays in the public domain?

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What kind of book is Plays?

Plays by Susan Glaspell is filed under "Drama" in the Vinteuil library.