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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.

The first complete collection of the works of American playwright Susan Glaspell, this book includes all seven of the Pulitzer Prize winner's seven one-act works: Suppressed Desires, Trifles, The People, The Outside, Woman's Honor, Close the Book, and Tickless Time. The book also features Glaspell's seven full-length plays, including 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 essays. A previously unknown Glaspell play, the political parody Free Laughter, is included in an appendix. Two other appendices give details on both first run and recent productions of Glaspell's plays.

Eugene O'Neill is one of America's most celebrated playwrights, but relatively few Americans know the name of the man who essentially gave O' Neill his first chance at greatness: George Cram, Jig Cook, one of America's most colorful and original thinkers and the founder of the Provincetown Players, the first company to stage O'Neill. Cook's story, with all its hopes, dreams, and disappointments, is told in The Road to the Temple.

First published in 1927 in the United States and reprinted in 1941, this biography is the work of Cook's third wife, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Susan Glaspell, It traces Cook's lifelong search for self, a search that took him from his birthplace in Davenport, Iowa, to New York to Delphi; from university teaching and truck farming, to the Provincetown Players, to the antiquity of Greece. Part of Jig's story is told by excerpts from his journals, pictures, poetry, and fiction. Interwoven with narrative flashbacks, these entries concerning his day-to-day activities as well as his thoughts and feelings bring him to life for the reader. In addition, Glaspell offers finely crafted portraits of the American Midwestin the late nineteenth century; a vivid picture of Greenwich Village between 1910 and 1920; and a moving and lyrical account of the life she and Jig lived in Greece, where Jig died on January 11, 1924. A compelling combination of biography and autobiography, this volume presents a unique and personal picture of a fascinating American original.

Susan Glaspell was an American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her plays. Her writing is known for developing sympathetic characters and understanding the complexities of life. Her interest in philosophy and religion is seen in her works. The four plays in this collection are; The Outside, Trifles, The Verge and Inheritors.