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"Fidelity" (1915) is a classic that should be put beside books by
writers such as Edith Wharton and Willa Cather; yet the novels of
Susan Glaspell, who was once considered America's greatest living
playwright apart from Eugene O'Neill (and who is best-known for her
short play, 'Trifles') have been ignored.Set in Iowa in 1900 and in
1913, this dramatic and deeply moral novel uses complex but subtle
use of flashback to describe a girl named Ruth Holland, bored with
her life at home, falling in love with a married man and running
off with him; when she comes back more than a decade later we are
shown how her actions have affected those around her. Ruth had
taken another woman's husband and as such 'Freeport' society thinks
she is 'a human being who selfishly - basely - took her own
happiness, leaving misery for others. She outraged society as
completely as a woman could outrage it...One who defies it -
deceives it - must be shut out from it.'But, like Emma Bovary, Edna
Pontellier in "The Awakening" and Nora in "A Doll's House" Ruth has
'a diffused longing for an enlarged experience...Her energies
having been shut off from the way they had wanted to go, she was
all the more zestful for new things from life. ..' It is these that
are explored in "Fidelity".
Drama / Characters: 3 male, 2 female
Scenery: interior
Unusually powerful and effective, and gives fine roles for two
good actresses. The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on
suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old
farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary
and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by
keeping her secret, they free her. An American classic by one of
the original members of the Provincetown Playhouse where this play
was premiered.
The playwright, Susan Glaspell, is a Pulitzer Prize-Winner.
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Susan Glaspell
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Susan Glaspell, Provincetown Players
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Susan Glaspell, Provincetown Players
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