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Susan Glaspell: feminist playwright
Susan Glaspell, a "new woman" of the second decade of the twentieth century in America, left a valuable legacy for the feminists who would follow her. Her life and writings are examples of what women are capable of doing when given the opportunity. In both she sought to prove that women could …
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Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
… analyzes plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to discover how these playwrights dealt with changing female social roles throughout the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. To provide a context for analysis, the first chapter includes an overview of major …
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No Way Out: Violence in Selected American Expressionist Plays
… O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, and Susan Glaspell all feature some type of violent death. These types of violence can be seen in German expressionist plays, as well as in proto-expressionist plays. The acts of violence are a recurring motif of expressionism, and their importance cannot be …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… the ‗Cult of True Womanhood‘ and Chopin, Cather, Glaspell and Robinson‘s non-conformist attitude to this feminine archetype. The main conclusions drawn from the exploration of texts are the interconnectivity between home and the ‗unheimlich‘ and homesickness, the blurred boundaries between the …
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A Portrayal of Gender and a Description of Gender Roles in Selected American Modern and Postmodern Plays.
… for Women</em>, Robins; <em>Trifles</em>, Glaspell; <em>Our Town</em>, Wilder; <em>Moon for the Misbegotten</em>, O'Neill; <em>The Glass Menagerie</em>, Williams; <em>Death of a Salesman</em>, Miller; <em>A Raisin in the Sun</em>, Hansberry; <em>Funnyhouse of a Negro</em>, Kennedy; …